On 2/15/2013 2:25 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > That's fine, but I'm talking about the prices I, personally, have written > PO's for over the last three years. so how many man hours have you wasted to save a few $100 on these batteries ? if it was our production data centers, the UPS VAR would be on a service contract, and THEY would be replacing the batteries on schedule as part of that contract. Time is Money. we're getting /way/ off topic for CentOS here. there are some general sysadmin mailing lists that might be better suited to this discussion. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos