"All of the manufacturers of cameras and VMS are against them and are altering their pricing and product to compete with them."
I see no evidence of any major counter offensive by any large manufacturer against Avigilon. Can anyone point to anything meaningful?
Beyond that, I am not sure how the independents (camera focused like Axis, Arecont, Sony, Panasonic, VMS focused like Milestone and Genetec) can really counter Avigilon. The real power, to me, of Avigilon is having a quality end to end offering (which by design, none of those companies have).
Sure, there are lots of end to end providers but most of that is from companies who can't get their act together in surveillance (Honeywell, Pelco, Verint, etc.)
I'd really be interested to hear what credible efforts are being made to counter Avigilon, because I do not see it.