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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