North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry
> > If need be I'll off shore it. > > > > Matt > > > > > Fine, you can build it and off-shore it, but I suspect that > is a case > of "if you build it they will not come". Robbing points from each other at the deal desk has 0 value to all of us. It also has 0 operational value. Ultimately, the smaller guys would suffer as a result anyhow. The more points beaten down at the top, the more pressure to not discount at the higher margins. [end] -M< > > I think that people have made it fairly clear that this is a bad > idea, but I don't think that anyone is going to stop you building it. > I am guessing that you will 1) get inflated prices because the > people who are getting the really good discounts are going to be the > ones with the most to lose personally and 2) lots of happy shiny > letters from vendor's lawyers asking you for logs. Whether or > not you > have logs is largely irrelevant, you will still get the letters. I > don't know about you, but I have better things to do than a: > unnecessarily antagonize the same people that you presumable want to > get a good discount from and b: collect subpoenas. > > Warren. > -- > "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, > and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." -- Terry Pratchett > > > > |