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Comments (29)
Jeremy Ellis
I would love to read their agreement. Please post if anyone gets one. First the "Trunk Slammers", now this....
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Undisclosed #1
Really. Since most adults might not be clear on the nuances of hybrid storage architectures, I'm wondering what exactly the poll question was:
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John Honovich
Drako on a roll today:
A strange statement to say the least. Sorry, ONVIF...
Also, sorry Milestone - Milestone Launches Disruptive ONVIF Bridge 'Out'
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Undisclosed #2
I can see this guy pulling up into the parking lot of the next school that has an incident pimping this deal, makes me sick when people do this kinda thing and make taxes go up in your state/county or have to beg for fed grants/bonds and all the unholy strings that come attached.
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Undisclosed #3
What about SmartVue? Pretty sure they've been around longer than 2012 - and they offer Cloud Bridges which appears to offer local storage in addition to cloud.
Mr. Renkis, can you clarify? :)
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John Honovich
From a competitive perspective, this could be impactful.
Essentially, Eagle Eye is going to give any school they want a one year free trial, which leaving aside the warped use of 'grants', could be tempting versus having to pay for a competitor. Some may conclude, might as well take 1 free, dump it later if need be, rather than have to get money to pay up front.
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Undisclosed #3
A grant, in law, is a transfer of property, generally from a person or other entity giving the property (the grantor) to a person or entity receiving the property (the grantee).
I agree with John's assessment - this is not a grant. Rather, it sounds more like a 12 month no-cost loan/license.
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Jeff Sandine
04/02/16 12:51pm
Vilify Dean Drako for offering schools $1M worth hardware, software and service at no charge? I don’t get it, what harm is being done? Who offers something better than try before you buy, for 1 year? AXIS? Milestone? Hikvision? I don’t see anything fake about what Dean is offering, it appears to be a valuable offer worth serious consideration. His offer eliminates the risk of buying a pig in a poke and provides a valuable service that can help save lives, for free, for 1 year.
If a school district takes Dean up on his offer, and after 1 year they decide that for whatever reason they don’t want to keep the system and begin paying for it, they simply remove the hardware, and if they choose, they can now replace the system with any other brand of hardware/software/service that they might want, as they will already have the wired/wireless infrastructure in place. More good news is that a year later if they remove the Eagle Eye System, and replace with a different system, they will get more for their money than they would today, due to the nature of computer based hardware/software, it only gets better and costs less over time.
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Undisclosed #3
For those that seek to dismiss the 'grant vs trial' debate as semantics, I submit to you another company that we all know that distinctly separates the 2 - and offers both (without the hipster marketing spin)
Video Insight $1M GRANT for the education market
Video Insight 3 month TRIAL for the education market
* I do not work for Video Insight
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Kenny Johnson
The schools know the deal up front!!! Drako is giving away 1 year of free services!!!
How is that bad? How is that unfair???
The schools know they are getting 1 year for free... then after that they start paying.
Anyone else on here giving away 1 whole year of free services???
This article should be taken down.
No, I don't work for him... though I have met him once... :)
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Rueben Orr
IPVM seems to be turning into an OP/ED site. Why do I constantly see "articles" like this one? Hey Mr. Honovich, most of your subscribers have kids that go to school, so why not "do the right thing" and give all your subscribers with kids in school free access to IPVM? "Do the right thing" "You have the money" I am surprised you didn't include "Pay your fair share". It's hard to see IPVM as unbiased anymore. That's too bad.
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