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Simplifying UC Licensing

Posted March 10, 2010, 9:38 am by Irwin Lazar

One of the biggest concerns we hear from IT managers planning for UC isn’t technical, rather it’s the complexity in buying licenses for the various UC applications they wish to deploy. Vendors haven’t made it easy. There are various licensing programs; some are tied to hardware, others to software, and many based on a per-user basis, requiring each person to have their own license so licenses can’t be pooled and tied to usage.

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