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Oh, you should have seen the TWO UPSs we had for the production HP-UX boxes at a joint-venture automotive company I worked for in California. They literally had to bring them in with a fork lift, and they sat behind the main dispatchers control panel, keeping all the servers up. Noise wasn't an issue, since it was an assembly line environment. But they could keep the 4 HP-UX boxes and two PCs up and running happily for >4 hours. And the heat they produced?!! But that was one job where money to keep things running was easy to come by. Downtime worked out to ~$6k a minute at that point in the production process.
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