back to article Mature networking vendor seeks flexible commitment from software suitors

Cisco has updated its main software licence, the Enterprise Agreement, to version 3.0 and claims it’s now more flexible as while you need to commit to a certain level of spend up-front, your payments can be shifted among products, or even spent on services. The new agreement carves Cisco’s software products into five “ …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Is there now also flexibility in which backdoors it installs? I couldn't help but notice that unlike Huawei, it is impossible to have insight in what lives inside Cisco code, nor get it audited.

  2. quartzie

    Swapping nightmare...

    As flogging Cisco wares is part of my daily bread and butter, I'm only worried what switching contract commits would entail in our SAP.

    At the same time, customers with over $100k in licensing fees alone are not going to be switching very often... if at all. There tends to be a good amount of "if it works, don't touch it" reticence, unless the CFO is "woke" and has a bone to pick with the CIO.

    1. Jellied Eel Silver badge

      Re: Swapping nightmare...

      I'm guessing a CFO would wonder why they should pay $100k up front per silo. Then maybe ask the CIO for a full inventory per silo to see how many $100k payments they'd need to be fully locked in to Cisco. I mean flexible licensing.

      Bold move by Cisco as it'll give large enterprise customers a good reason to look at service costs, and perhaps alternative vendors. It could make life easier for SP customers who are managing multiple enterprise client networks though.

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