RIGHT... so just because it's in the release notes, you shouldn't feel cheated. Let's apply that to the real world shall we? I go to the grocery store and buy some cheese... when I get home, I realize that the cheese is past it's expiration date. So now I've paid for something but I can't use it. Clearly it was printed on the expiration date, so the company that sold it to me isn't at fault. I should have paid more attention to the notes.
No, that's not how it works. I paid for a feature. Now Aruba wants me to pay again for Airwave.
Aruba WILL lose business over this. When I have showed off Aruba to many of my collegues, the ONLY wow factor has been the planning and deployment tool built into the gui. Wow... you mean I can see where my radios are on a map!? Wow, I can hover over them and quickly see how many clients are attached? That's a wow factor. And it was in the base product. The rest of the gui is a cluttered, overcomplicated mess.
Now, you either need to configure another (windows only) tool, or buy additional licensing for Airwave. (which is also a cluttered mess)
I understand that Aruba is only concerned with making money (gotta keep the shareholders happy first) and that there is much more money to be made selling software than hardware. Aruba will continue to buy companies to expand their product offerings, and we will end up paying for it.
(And cjoseph, you made my point for me. It was available on the aruba controller from 2.5 up to 6.2. It was there for 7 years. And it's laughable to think that people actually read the mess that you guys call release notes.) Terrible.