On 1/10/24 09:04, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
I find it frustrating that things one would expect to be included in
any layer 3 switch has become additional revenue opportunities.
"The switch hardware is $x. Oh you want the software too? Oh,
that's an additional cost. L3 switching? Oh, that's an extra
feature. OSPF? Oh that's not included with the L3 license so that
will be extra too. Oh and by the way, you aren't buying a perpetual
license anymore so be sure to pay us the fees for all the software
functionality every year".
Yes I know the above isn't completely 100% accurate but it definitely
is how it seems anymore.
I get charging extra for advanced features, but when basic features
that pretty much everyone wants and uses becomes an add-on and not
perpetual, it tends to make me start looking for a different vendor.
In our hubris to "decouple the control plane from the data plane (tm)",
we, instead, decoupled the software/hardware integration from a single
vendor.
So hardware folk make their own cut, and software folk make their own
cut. And they are not the same people.
Welcome to the "white box" and "software-only" era.
Mark.
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