Yes I had a demo of ShoreTel also it would be my 3rd choice, I prefer the Lync and the Jabber clients to ShoreTels offering.
__________________________________ Stefan Jafs -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: March 26, 2014 1:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] How much to implement a Cisco telephone implementation It's probably a lot more than an equivalent ShoreTel installation. I really like my ShoreTel system. OTOH, Lync is pretty nice too - we'll be upgrading to 2013 Enterprise some time this calendar year, and we're mulling over the value of Lync vs. Shoretel. Kurt On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Stefan Jafs <[email protected]> wrote: > We are looking at replacing our old Nortel BCM 450 for about 275 users. > > The shortlist is Cisco and Microsoft Lync. We are leaning towards > Cisco a bit more expensive but also only 1 vendor (the President likes > the “hardware” platform, even though Cisco runs with VM’s). > > Anyhow implementation is about $66k (Lync is about $56k), to me that > sounds like about twice too much, has anyone have done a similar > implementation, and / or is it a fair price? And we would do the > placement of the phones ourselves. > > > > __________________________________ > > Stefan Jafs > >
