[84572] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Sep 16 17:25:00 2005
To: David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:55:51 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:24:30 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:55:51 EDT, David Hubbard said:
> Don't forget about "Well we're super sized network equipment
> vendor X so if you rip out all of your equipment from vendor
> Y, you can get discount + special discount." :-)
Heck, we've had vendor X give us a discount for ripping vendor X's old gear out. :)
(Seems we had locked in a price for a hardware maintenance contract, and X was
at the wrong end of the deal when support costs rose faster than predicted...)
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