kevin, it's old news. Just Tiara taking advantage of the NMC interest to promote themselves.
I'd really like to believe the $1.50/day that Vern has put on the access cost per user as it would allow quantitative analysis.
Unfortunately Vern has been on a prejudiced bent lately for some reason, so a source for reliability would really be appreciated.
As far as his analysis of cost to value, I've got a 24 port Cisco switch with current software I'd love to get even 1% of cost for. It has more value as a bandwidth restrictor than as a managed device at this time.
imo