On 02/15/13 19:35, zGreenfelder wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:52 PM, John R Pierce<pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> 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. > > +1 kill -9 $this_thread, pls. I agree. All I asked for was recommendations for battery vendors, not an argument as to why I should do this. This is my last on this thread. If someone *really*, *really* wants to argue about how I'm spending our tax dollars, email me offlist, and I'll decide if you're worth explaining it to. mark -- 'You can always rely on the US to do the right thing, once it has exhausted the alternatives." - Winston Churchill _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos