Re: [j-nsp] Thanks for all the fish
Mark Tinka via juniper-nsp <[email protected]>
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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. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp