[CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor, ended

[mark]

On 02/15/13 19:35, zGreenfelder wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:52 PM, John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com>
> wrote:
>> On 2/15/2013 2:25 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us 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

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