[intorio]

Maybe I'm just bad at negotiating, but I haven't been able to get vendors to quote me less than double the cost of the Cumulus hardware quotes I've seen (primarily Quanta). Also, looking at support costs, the quotes I have for Cumulus are about 20% cheaper than the cheapest quotes I've seen from Juniper/Dell, just for software support.

That said, NBD or sooner hardware replacement plans are a bit weird with Cumulus. I think they expect you to keep onsite spares, which still ends up being cheaper.

I think if Cumulus becomes more popular, we might see some community code that implements validation and confirmed commits and more features. If we decide to go with Cumulus, and we are thinking about it, we might write something like that.