1. They develop for the majority not the minority. 2. They develop for the major players in the enterprise networking space; the vendors you list aren't in that space 3. OSS has its place. That place isn't in a lot of large enterprises 4. Not many niche players out there show you their hand up front. Counter productive for them 5. I'm not against anything you say specifically, but you're painting a picture with a very broad stroke from the POV of someone who works at an EDU and EDU's are notorious for not spending money on the cool toys
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:21 PM James M. Pulver <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > >
