Well, it seems to be Windows only, which is quite a limitation. Ideally
(for me) it would be web based and run on a linux server. I do wish it
was less "flash" in the demo and more ideas about price and actual
functionality. Yes, I saw it works with CISCO IOS devices. That's great.
We don't run CISCO. We have IBM System Networking / Blade switches and
HPe Procurve, some with only web management. I doubt this can log in to
that. Plus we have interconnects we don't have direct access to - how
does it handle that?
I'm not interested in trialing something that's "almost working" and
costs a lot of money - there's plenty of FLOSS thats "almost working" so
the time I put in is it, not also a large capital outlay.
And like you, I just skip the companies who don't even give me an idea
of the pricing structure. I mean, are we talking 10K for 100 switches
and 20% maintenance? 10K/year? 100K? These are very different
propositions for purchasing software. And what is support like? Do they
include so many new hardware integrations?
Too little info for me to wast time on.
James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University
On 03/28/2017 02:55 PM, Don Ely wrote:
It is cool and it IS expensive
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:37 AM Kurt Buff <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
https://www.netbraintech.com/
I just interviewed someone who mentioned using it, so I looked it up.
The general rule of thumb I've used is that if the web site has a
button to request a quote rather than listing prices, it's probably
really expensive - and probably beyond the reach of my current firm.
They have a bunch of youtube videos, which reinforces my impression
that it's expensive, but it looks pretty cool, and I wondered if it's
worth investigating.
Kurt
