By Gloria Caughlin, HP Competitive Marketing
Cisco?s Live event took place in Milan last week, and the big news was the release of Cisco ONE Software, a license bundling move described by the company as ?a valuable and flexible way to buy software for your data center.?
It?s an attempt to reduce licensing complexity, and I suspect it will be getting a lot of attention from Cisco customers for one simple reason: Cisco?s approach to licensing up to now has been a morass of complexity and price-maximization. I don?t think that?s putting it too strongly. ...