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Those vendors have had a feature that Rational is missing and that feature is their main selling point. What [IBM wants] to be able to do is give you a place to go to get access to the data and all the tools.

Carey Schwaber

At the higher levels of the stack, although there is some agreement between [the vendors] on the specifications and proposals around security, there are other opportunities around things like transactions and business rules that could create more divergence.

Mike Gilpin

A lot of vendors are just using the Internet standard SMTP as opposed to MAPI.

Tom Austin

Buyers should insist from their vendors that they have the opportunity to try it, especially if it?s an expensive item.

Michael Klein

They would be managing the business efficiency of the outsourced relationship, which in many instances can involve multiple vendors and be more complex than running the show in-house.

Ross Mckenzie

We had two dates last year ... It was a problem with vendors like getting new furniture and getting new rugs put in.

Brian Cummings

We were direct at first, like any early-stage company. We are now working with application vendors, and are recruiting resellers with data center experience, server and storage virtualization experience or experience in certain markets. A formal reseller program will be rolled out pretty quickly.

Mike Grandinetti

There's no question that Japan is one of the fastest-growing Linux markets. As the number of Linux servers deployed in Japan continues to grow, U.S. vendors are recognizing that this could be a very lucrative market for system management solutions.

Dave Rosenberg

Our research suggests that current IBM customers are considering other vendors and certainly Dell is on that short list.

Bill Fearnley

This plan of reorganization is an important milestone for us. With the support of our customers, vendors and employees we have the framework in place to enable Anchor Glass to remain a strong and innovative competitor in the marketplace.

Mark Burgess

Our booths vary from arts and crafts booths, to homemade purses, honey, knitted items, different food vendors, roasted peanuts, funnel cakes, fried twinkies, and much, much more.

Cheryl Ferguson

Toshiba has the dual-slot architecture, which is something that almost all of the vendors need to be thinking about moving to.

Todd Kort

We expect the PC price war to intensify in the second quarter as Dell joins the battle, (and) we believe all (PC vendors), including Acer, will continue to suffer from declining average selling prices and margin erosion.

Henry King

Most operators and vendors acknowledge that UMA is a stepping-stone to a more fully convergent solution that is closely aligned with IP standards, technologies and approaches. UMA has some clear advantages, apart from its current availability. It is closely aligned with the GSM network architecture, and is thus easy for most mobile operators to implement technically and commercially.

Jeremy Green

SAS thinks that Computerworld has provided an excellent forum for open and thoughtful discussions that are valuable for business intelligence users and vendors alike. This conference is a real opportunity to share best practices and gain insights and perspectives on how the combination of data integration analytics and information delivery will change the way organizations compete.

Keith Collins

I wish Treasure Bay, its employees, vendors and customers the very best. My heart will always be with them and Treasure Bay. While there is never a good time to leave a company, I believe Treasure Bay has a very bright future with a strong and loyal management team and employment base in place.

Bernie Burkholder

We agreed to do a variety if things in the community, ... in addition to the tens of millions of dollars that had been allocated to contracts for local vendors in the development of the new ballpark.

John Mchale

Vendors have cleared a number of technical hurdles but still must address some more obstacles before any of the new battery options become available.

Sara Bradford

Because Walker is the largest furniture store in Las Vegas, most vendors try to get their foot in the door and if it means giving us floor samples, they'll do it.

Larry Alterwitz

Microsoft is really going to focus on their partnerships throughout the entire conference. They've really courted a bunch of third-party vendors to integrate their tools into Visual Studio .NET. The list of third-party tools announced (at Tech Ed) is going to be long.

Mark Driver

This game will serve as a 'dress rehearsal' for everyone -- the stadium operations staff, concessionaires, vendors, ushers, grounds crew, broadcasters, umpires, news media and our fans. We want our fans to have the best experience possible when we formally open on April 10 vs. Milwaukee.

Mark Lamping

If I'm an enterprise customer implementing a large IP network, it's not the big network vendors I'm interested in. It's the products from the small companies and start-ups. And that's harder to track.

David Strom

I never heard of Microsoft pressuring us or any other company to not buy other vendors' software -- and we buy software from all different vendors, Microsoft included.

Stephen Brown

Advertisers are looking for new ways to get to the mass audience and see grocery stores as a big marketplace. The customers are in the stores, the wallets are in their pockets and the TV programming allows vendors to talk directly to them with their products in close proximity.

Ken Goldberg

Mobile search is an area of keen interest to both users and vendors.

Matthew Brown

Our new owner brings us additional expertise and resources that will allow us to build on our successes and take advantage of new opportunities. Today's completion of the merger is good news for our teammates, vendors and customers.

Paul White

The other thing to keep in mind is, it's not just about uptime. It's also about performance and response time. Some of these solutions are slower to refresh. All the vendors need to focus not only on uptime but also on performance.

Liz Herbert

It is unlikely all vendors will agree to IPR capping. Nevertheless, by removing CDMA from the LTE standard it also removes perhaps the most vocal opponent to royalty capping and proportionality - Qualcomm.

Gavin Patterson

Folks weren't pointing fingers or speaking loudly with traditional hot dog vendors or bagel or ice cream vendors. That's always been a part of growing up in America. Why the concern now?

Loui Olivas

This is a great opportunity for vendors to showcase their products to visitors as well as local residents. We encourage everyone to come out on that Saturday, which is the day before Mother's Day, and shop at all the arts and crafts booths.

Amanda Miller

I certainly think that in asking vendors to bid for either a polling-place solution or a vote-center solution gives us better analysis of what the costs would be.

Josh Liss

Before, we were AMD-only and then only played in the HTX subset of that market. Every server built from now on will be able to use our products. That includes products from the major server vendors such as HP, IBM and Sun.

Len Rosenthal

We decided the time was right in every sense to create a new global company providing components and modules to the telecommunications equipment vendors.

Kevin Kalkhoven

Increasingly, there are more handset vendors coming up with new models [of WAP phones]. But by the end of this year or early next year, most vendors will have a whole series, so practically all phones will be WAP-enabled.

Sandra Ng

Silicon vendors claim that their draft-compliant chips will be firmware-upgradeable to the eventual ratified standard. Initially this will mostly be consumer-oriented equipment; we believe that enterprise IT managers will not purchase equipment until the standard is actually ratified.

Sam Lucero

Given Mozilla's open and transparent approach, we are very detailed on how we publish our vulnerability reports, and we list each vulnerability separately. Other vendors don't. Other vendors often combine multiple vulnerabilities, for instance, into one security bulletin.

Chris Beard

We were looking to standardize our design flow to reduce the amount of time we spent recreating parts that would work with one design tool but not another. We had concerns about losing all of our previous designs and libraries. However, after evaluating several vendors, we discovered that with PADS, we were able to get done what we needed to do quickly and cleanly.

Dave Wolf

We would like to see more vendors in Pittsburgh.

Guy Costa

Our vendors have been very patient. The same (goes) for landlords.

Jane Dudley

When we asked participants which vendors would be considered in 2006 for their ERP purchases, Microsoft Business Solutions led the pack. Our research indicates that there will be a huge surge in ERP spending in 2006. With companies of all sizes growing their ERP budgets, this is bound to be a banner year for top vendors in this space.

Jim Shepherd

The festival had to be condensed. Usually, we have a dozen vendors. This year, there will be five to six.

Mike Saffran

On Sunday, with the five to six hours of sunlight that we got, the Kids Section really came into full swing. I know the kids really enjoyed the games. The non-profit groups came out along with the other vendors, so it turned out to be a productive day.

Katherine Young

We are getting a good response so far for this being our first try at a craft show, and depending on the participation by vendors and attendance by the community. We would like to try to do this annually.

Carol Wilson

We can advertise all we want, but if the vendors don't offer things that the visitors want, then they won't come.

Jeffrey Bareng

[Nokia's McDowell said her company was working on some of Johnston's requests and has a particular focus on making smart phones more useful to enterprise customers.] We have a little different perspective than some other vendors, ... We don't see cell phones as 'junior' laptops but as the principal productivity tool to keep connected to customers and your colleagues.

Mary Mcdowell

There's an issue that's going to be going on for a lot of vendors and for the standards bodies. What's going to be the best framing technology for 10-Gbit/s PON?

David Foote

[Kevin and Sandy said they like everything about the fair.] We like seeing all the people and the activities, ... We try to set aside three hours a day to walk around and see the vendors.

Kevin Davis

This should not be going on. With all the needs in our city, they are spending precious dollars on a party. This is a commercial holiday. It provides sales for vendors, but it will not provide the jobs we need.

Mtangulizi Sanyika

People have cravings for literature just as they do for bars of chocolate, fizzy drinks or all the other things you can now buy from machines. These vendors mean it's as if our stores were open 24 hours a day.

Xavier Chambon

Efforts to consolidate the number of vendors or to provide middleware platforms that consolidate these systems will be important components of risk projects for the next few years.

Deborah Williams

Unlike other vendors, we have no lock-in.

Shai Agassi

The majority of semiconductor manufacturers have and will continue to maintain their investment discipline and invest carefully, although some vendors will be investing strategically in 2006.

Klaus Rinnen

During the peak of the internet bubble, the leading database management system vendors were getting out of touch in terms of their pricing.

Peter O'kelly

You would think that with Microsoft coming, that the small vendors would collapse. But Microsoft is really, really late.

Tom Bittman

Equipment vendors and service providers understand the need to improve their emergency services. But time, money and effort will need to be expended in order to deliver those enhancements.

Bob Egan

We are extremely pleased to have attained Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program because the benefits provided through our Gold Certified status will allow us to continue to enhance the offerings that we provide for our clients without impacting our objectivity. Our clients get the best of both worlds -- unbiased advice and strong relationships with vendors like Microsoft.

Dean Fischer

While there is still much hard work ahead, we are pleased with the early progress we are making in addressing in-stock levels, customer service and store traffic, ... Nearly all of our vendors have resumed shipments to us and in-stock levels in the stores have improved.

James Adamson

We're also hoping to have food vendors at the civic center prior to the parade.

Mary Dickson

We actually had a crisis in the beginning of the testing, in that the first three or four vendors did not pass.

Peter Reed

This is definitely an industry where competition is high. You've got competing vendors all over the world trying to get limited customer attention.

Tina Thomas

It's financially empowering to all of the vendors.

Jim Earles

[Few small e-commerce software makers have been able to turn a profit in the small-business market. Bock says that with an ISP's sales channel, those small companies can change their fortunes.] The tools makers are lining up to dance with the ISPs, ... Tool vendors have to have an elegant way to interface with potential clients: supporting a tool through an ISP is like a hot knife through butter.

Geoffrey Bock

Security is especially relevant for government vendors. Governments are saying they'd rather use open-source technology because there aren't any unseen open doors into the system. But it's not only that. Linux offers better performance, more stability, and a lower cost. It's a threat to Microsoft, and there's no turning back.

Stacey Quandt

There has been a move away from best-of-breed CRM software vendors towards companies like SAP that offer complete suites integrating CRM with other enterprise applications.

Bill Wohl

Identity management consists of a set of discrete products that also have elements of overlapping and common functionality: workflow a roles framework; interfaces for self-service and delegated administration, and a directory. Large vendors sought to build portfolios that would integrate by sharing these services, which simplifies their coordinated use by customers.

Jonathan Penn

There's different vendors of home-based companies that set up booths so they can promote their business. Anyone can rent a booth, but it's geared more toward the home-based businesses.

Sara Brown

The agreements with selected vendors allow us to utilize the latest technology to further improve the services we offer our clients, ... We expect that this IT program that is shared across the group will contribute to the savings in line with earlier estimates made by the bank, while improving IT services within the group.

Hugh Scott

These volunteers are wonderful. Some have been here since 5:30 this morning setting up and directing vendors. They are helping everywhere. It's a sea of yellow T-shirts.

Carolyn Coates

I had to do a lot of paperwork for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the county, pay vendors, gather food for people and a lot more.

Linda Mcdermott

Enterprise [products and applications] come to a forefront [for vendors] in slowing economic time, when consumer spending slows down.

Brian Jaquet

Applications are what are going to define [the handheld] market. People are looking for functionality and vendors will be jockeying for positions.

Brian Jaquet

In addition to the new technology demonstrations, we have a large number of vendors who have committed to the show. Pipe-welding demonstrations for stock-water systems, new brush-management techniques, animal science demonstrations, weed control and seeding, forage harvest equipment and conservation-easement alternatives should provide something for everyone.

Mark Shirley

Red Hat joins an increasingly crowded field of platform vendors, including Hewlett-Packard, Novell, IBM and other specialists and new firms offering these services.

George Weiss

Overall, the macro-environment was somewhat challenging for software vendors in the third quarter, but we are expecting to see in-line quarters from most of the companies.

Karen Haus

A lot of people think their vendors can solve this problem for them. We believe a vendor can provide a HIPAA-ready system, but only an organization can make it compliant. And it's not a one-time process like with Y2K. It's ongoing.

Richard Peterson

Rather than controlling the basic process framework, we (at IBM) can leverage what the open-source community does. And other software vendors can do the same around our processes.

Grady Booch

In order to measure true growth, a distributor must secure from his vendors the real story in the form of pounds purchased compared to a previous period. A big increase in dollars is always fun to review, but it does not tell the true story.

Bob Snyder

We can now keep up with changes in pricing and product information, as well as provide an up-to-date list of vendors to our franchisees.

Nikole Smith

I don't think many software vendors would be willing to run the risk of deliberately placing a back door in their software. The benefits compared to the huge risk of disclosure simply aren't worth it.

Thomas Kristensen

We're investing in a wide range of models. The new kind of applications ISVs (independent software vendors) can make (with Windows Vista) will be dramatically different from what's possible with the Web application model. I think it's clearly differentiated.

Greg Sullivan

You can swap, but the better thing to do is use the threat of swapping as leverage for getting a better deal. That's what keeps the vendors honest and competing against one another.

Joshua Greenbaum

Where security strategies are dependent upon the timing of investment and deployment, enterprises may be forced to turn to other vendors to meet schedules and budgetary requirements.

David Baltaxe

At first, it was hard to find any IRA vendors willing to do automatic rollovers because they thought the rollovers would be dead accounts.

Rick Nelson

We've had a lot of vendors who have contributed. It's come together real nicely.

Mark Granger

IBM is clearly showing that software alone won't solve the totality of SOA challenges, ... This will turn up the heat on the other platform vendors such as BEA (Systems) and Oracle to consider how they too will broaden their coverage of SOA beyond simply software and professional services.

Ron Schmelzer

We may not be able to get much bigger (waves) than we are today. But every year we are able to bring better quality surfers to the event. Better surfers, better vendors who are more civic-minded and less commercial, that is what we try to do every year to improve the family friendly environment.

Dick Catri

Customers, team members (employees), investors, vendors, communities and the environment.

John Mackey

It was definitely a surprise to see Cisco's reaction. I don't think that's the best approach. I do feel that it is happening less and that vendors are realizing that we don't want to work against them, but with them.

Michael Sutton

You want to have the resources to hire the professionals you need and to service debt, make lease payments and put up cash collateral, as required to keep operating the business. And you need to pay vendors.

Howard Wu

Vendors experienced significant growth in the color page printer market due to aggressive pricing, as the average selling price of these devices declined 21 percent in 2005. Monochrome page printer shipments remain strong due to the growth in small and midsize business (SMB) and remote workers that need inexpensive printers.

Peter Grant

I've been light on personal computer stocks for some time because of the secular trend which I think is negative towards the PC vendors. I believe units will continue to grow worldwide at about 15 percent per year, but average selling prices, now with the advent of the $200 and $300 box, are stopping like stones, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

Paul Meeks

It's been well received by the vendors and sponsors. If it's successful and we get a good response, we might do it every other week or weekly next year.

Dennis Case

Dealers should not necessarily assume that vendors' performance has fallen just because overall satisfaction slipped. I would assume that the expectation has risen.

Mark Rush

Once digital hardware vendors recognize their broad reliance on the intellectual property protected by the MMP Portfolio, they appreciate the critical need to secure continued access to the fundamental MMP technologies. System-level coverage is essential to maintaining product design freedom and avoiding supply-chain disruptions.

Mac Leckrone

His conclusion is contrary to virtually everything I've seen in my 17 year history of commercial free/open source solutions. I believe that the effect of open source on the proprietary vendors is a force 1,000 times more powerful than the force of proprietary principles on the open source community.

Michael Tiemann

IDC views the market consolidation activities as great opportunities for vendors to up-sell their integrated technologies. We also expect vendors to make greater efforts to improve their penetration rates by reaching the corporate boardroom, in order to better persuade the criticality of IT investment within business operations.

Wilvin Chee

In the effort to keep up with the demands of customers, vendors are placing increased emphasis on self-service and Web-enabled CRM packages. This includes CRM software vendors moving their architecture from client/server, Web-enabled, and three-tier architectures to N-tiered architected Web-based applications.

Barton Goldenberg

Sun and other vendors still see the developer world in a relatively narrow sense, focusing on content that promotes their own products and technologies directly and not mentioning other products and technologies.

Michael O'connell

The vendors said they had a good number of people stopping at their booths. They all seemed happy and said they wanted to come back next year. They thought it was worthwhile.

Tammy Polczynski

Consumer electronics demand was stellar but we do think some of this translated into PC purchases and that the PC vendors overall will post good results.

Rebecca Runkle

At some fairs they do fashion shows, but we didn't feel that was really fair to the vendors. Then they're just sitting around for an hour without any customers while the brides and their guests watch the show.

Carolayne Holley

The commissioner mentioned the above vendors as some who were at New Orleans conference recently, ... He thought we might contact them via phone and see if they are interested in Excellence in Corrections conference.

Dan Stone

The combination of these two next-generation NAS and SAN solutions makes them pretty competitive to leading vendors, such as Network Appliance, and to a lesser-extent EMC, ... There is more and more demand among customers for a converged solution.

Tony Asaro

We had a big meeting last Monday, and we decided to take a step back and step out. A lot of our vendors are involved in relief efforts. People are going to four or five hurricane events this week, and rightly so. There will be a better time to do a 5280 party.

Keely Rubis

Who controls the future of computing is really what this is all about. All these vendors understand that this is a transitional time for the industry where platforms are evolving, and everybody wants to be the market leader and control things.

Judith Hurwitz

It has been an honor to be a part of Illinois' history, and we look forward to sharing another century of growth with the state that we call home. As we take time to celebrate this event, we look with appreciation to those who have helped us reach this milestone, including our predecessors, employees, neighbors, customers, vendors, and shareholders.

Sam Scott

We want to reach consumers, we want to reach vendors. It's a chicken and egg sort of thing. If the consumers realize the benefits for them, they will demand products. If vendors see the demand, they'll supply the products.

Steve Plice

You have to figure that at least 1,000 (vendors) carry through here. And a day like today, with people having spring fever, it will be super crowded.

Wes Pfadenhauer

My own feeling is that this isn't a new threat, it's been around a couple weeks and AV vendors have had protection in place.

David Emm

In the first program, vendors had to be persuaded to participate. This time, many volunteered. Fifty percent of the proposals were sub-$30 handsets. So the decision was based on quality, attractive design, brand, logistics, after-sales support and global service.

Ben Soppitt

As for commercial vendors, you have to remember that Eclipse provides a barebones IDE. It really doesn't compete in features and functions with an enterprise IDE, nor does it try to. So what commercial vendors need to do is to focus on adding value in the form of more sophisticated capabilities on top of the commoditized base features that Eclipse provides for free.

Carl Zetie

The first 250 children to complete the Healthy Kids Day Challenge get Healthy Kids Day t-shirts. They have to complete three things that are physical activities and four or five are talking to vendors.

Carol Boerlin

Design teams need to get their vendors to provide them the information they need.

Chuck Cimalore

Credit unions and smaller banks were actually quicker than most large banks to offer online services because of the relationship they had with vendors and their capability to integrate web operations into their systems at a reasonable sum. A bank like Citibank had to do a huge internal thing to get the system up.

Jim Bruene

We are pleased to announce that we will again offer vendors the same attractive package of significant benefits to ensure a catalogue of the highest quality for the fourth annual National Yearling, Weanling and Broodmare Sale.

David Chester

After years of working with multiple software vendors in this industry, we're excited about this opportunity to sign an exclusive agreement with a long-standing and financially secure partner with a diverse range of customers nationwide. This partnership links us with a leader in enterprise behavioral healthcare software.

Tom Vincent

I think the key thing from a Microsoft perspective is that customers are looking to integrate applications inside their enterprises, customers are looking for vendors to provide solutions all the way across the stack.

Scott Woodgate

We don't charge our vendors when they come to town, though. We sort of feel like it would be wrong. That tax is for our community, true, but we've been working with these vendors for years with this festival. We probably should, but, you know, we just won't put that tax on them.

Catherine Cook

They are taking a hit and are now heavily in debt. But cable providers have got to position themselves this way for the future, in terms of providing broadband services for the payback several years down the road, ... If they don't, they will be run over by the satellite vendors, video over DSL vendors, and fixed wireless.

Mike Paxton

Getting these systems approved is our top priority, and we are laser-focused on it. But Secretary McPherson can't force vendors to come forward with qualified systems.

Jennifer Kerns

Money received by school districts from vendors pursuant to vending concessions contracts and school picture contracts is school district money. The fact that money from these sources is deposited in a school activity fund does not change its character.

John Patten

In 2005, the industry witnessed great momentum around open source databases, from product enhancement, improved customer support and increased adoption to new vendors jumping on the bandwagon. Open source databases continue to make inroads into enterprises, offering low-cost database management system alternatives to support all types of business applications.

Noel Yuhanna

At some point the sales of non-PC computing devices are going to exceed those of PCs, at least in terms of units, and no way is Intel going to have the kind of market dominance it has in the PC market--there are just so many different types of devices, standards, and vendors.

Linley Gwennap

Home is still the dominant place to print, yet the anaemic number of prints supports IDC's theory that end users have more reliable expectations regarding mobile imaging than vendors themselves.

Chris Chute

They've reduced their vendor list to only their top vendors. It's cheaper for them.

Richard Sneider

Customers are more willing to enter discussions and engage vendors, ... Primarily, they don't have the urgency to act that they did last year, and customers are putting pressures on everybody with whom they do business.

Scott Kriens

Semiconductor vendors remain conservative in their investment plans, which is enabling a continued gradual decline in supply-chain inventory levels and incremental improvement in manufacturing capacity utilization rates.

Richard Gordon

Those blocks (E and D) housed the vendors who sold the most expensive items.

Ann Kelly

Despite the lower value ratings Cisco received in our survey this year, the truth is that organizations are reluctant to change vendors, and if they do, there has to be a very compelling case for doing so, ... Unlike in the router market, there doesn't appear to be a shake-up going on in the switch market. Vendors that make an organization's short list are likely already installed in that network.

Matthias Machowinski

Small-business owners are price takers. They're too small to be able to negotiate prices with vendors.

Keitaro Matsuda

Tape drives are traditionally launched as a standalone product first, and then it takes the automation vendors three to six months to integrate the product into their libraries and autoloaders. We didn't think that made sense, so the DLT-S4 is available as both a stand-alone drive and in the PX720 library.

Mark O'malley

Over time, this type of service is likely to be absorbed by the larger vendors.

Bern Elliot

There's no way that we could do it at this time. We had to notify the rescue groups and the vendors who had already scheduled to participate that day. However, the Pooch Parade will go on.

Amy Roberts

There is a growing population of consumers that value the imaging function of their mobile phone. These consumers are willing to pay more for their handset; tend to take, share, and print more pictures with their camera phone; and spend more per month on wireless services. Vendors need a product and marketing strategy to appeal to this lucrative imaging-centric market segment.

Jeff Hayes

I've had vendors try to assess me with a handling charge to offset the price of gas, which is illegal. But the vendors are getting creative in finding ways to write these costs off, so you really have to [scrutinize] the bills.

Fred Russell

We're running out of stuff, we're selling nonperishables - there's no milk. Our vendors are having trouble getting gas (to bring supplies).

David Greer

A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft will not tolerate illegal copies of its software being sold.

Michala Alexander

Vendors are likely to see a fundamental shift in the market as they come to grips with the steep decline in mature-market desk-based growth and are forced to seek growth in other market segments.

George Shiffler

There is a very high growth of new companies, which are backed by venture capitalists [and] are starting out as software-as-a-service companies. Also, there are vendors like SAP that offered a traditional license that are moving to hosted offerings.

Buell Duncan

Actually there's fairly good consistency between the big vendors. HP and EMC are covered.

Jamie Gruener

The enthusiasm of the vendors has been very contagious throughout the room.

Gwen Calhoun

As recent earnings announcements illustrate, vendors are facing strong competitive pressures. These pressures are only likely to intensify if unit growth slows. Vendors may have little choice other than to cut prices or offer more lower-cost, de-featured machines.

George Shiffler

In order for the Office of Government Integrity to conduct background screenings on all vendors doing business with the SCC, it would require amending the current law or an executive order by the governor.

Paul Loriquet

As strange as it may seem, government at all levels does business with vendors who are delinquent on their taxes.

Mark Everson

All the major vendors are hedging their bets with Linux.

Stacey Quandt

Equipment vendors are citing 'willingness to pay' surveys to show that people will pay up to 10 per month for mobile TV, but we generally view such surveys skeptically. It's one thing to say that you're willing to pay; it's quite another thing to actually pay.

John Delaney

We are trying to round out partnerships with strategic vendors.

Mike Grandinetti

We characterize this trend as the 'growing operational gap' between the level of IT staffing and the requirements their companies are placing on their infrastructure, particularly their networks. A solution for bridging this operational gap is for networking vendors to develop more intelligent products and features that will help boost an IT manager's operational efficiency.

Zeus Kerravala

It was our attempt to get a more complete document to go out to public review based on the set of vendors that fully responded. I just don't see how seeing a rough draft of that is going to give any competitive advantage to anyone.

Mary Mitchell

Sometimes its worth it just to hire someone for the initial planning stage. They can help you find things and steer you in the direction of the best vendors.

Patty Sachs

[Until the release of J2EE 1.4] you have a situation where Java developers have to work in potentially non-standard ways to support Web services, which isn't necessarily a terrible thing if you're working with one of the major vendors' tools suites like IBM, Sun, or Oracle.

Dwight Davis

As carriers and handset vendors seek to drive greater adoption of 3G services, however, we believe the pace of these technology upgrades could drive a mobile handset inventory overhang, similar to that seen in 2003 as customers began adopting camera-equipped handsets.

Inder Singh

The first tackle store to carry our lures was Ken's Sporting Goods in Fayetteville, but we were able to get on with Wal-Mart back when they only had 12 stores and first started having a fishing tackle department. I guess we are one of the oldest of Wal-Mart tackle vendors, but they have been awfully good to us.

Bob Carnes

We are delighted to be working in collaboration with Endeavor. This partnership represents a significant step toward an exciting future of expanded integration between technology vendors. As a result, this and future agreements should continue to deliver tangible improvements in the way library system vendors provide solutions and services to their customers.

Lee Cox

With IBM's entry into the network appliance space for SOA, we think this will turn up the heat on the other platform vendors such as BEA and Oracle to consider how they too will broaden their coverage of SOA beyond simply software and professional services.

Ron Schmelzer

The business model associated with what we do with blade network technologies has to be very closely aligned with how server vendors operate, how they get products and how those products are supported. That is very different to how networking vendors operate.

Vikram Mehta

This has been an ongoing problem with vendors. We do the best we can.

Jim Bennett

With Lucent as one of our strategic vendors we will maintain our market leadership in our deployment of wireless voice and data services.

Dan Hesse

In our opinion, consolidation is long overdue in a communications equipment market over-saturated with a plethora of vendors.

Ari Bensinger

We'll have to see how those programs do. Those have traditionally been somewhat difficult and a headache (for PC vendors); it means more support calls and technical calls.

Richard Shim

There are some irresponsible claims out there. A group of silicon vendors wanted to halt after draft one.

Greg Raleigh

The Kellogg Center has been a great partner for us in the past, and this is the same place where the museum has its Chocolate Party. They do an outstanding job taking care of not only the vendors but planning the event, organizing it and keeping it running, so the opportunity for wine tasting got offered here, too.

Lora Helou

The vendors offer more competitive pricing here.

Bobby Hypes

We had seven vendors who came to our pre-bid meeting, and four bids were received for the work.

Jim Saisa

So, what we added that a normal bride wouldn't was just an insert about the vendors that were available. On the back of the CD program, you've got a list of the vendors in the hopes that the guests will be interested and pursue some more information.

Jennifer Rodriguez

Symantec has bought 25 companies over the past few years it has done a pretty poor job of integrating the products it has bought. Consolidation in terms of the number of vendors does not mean the products are any better integrated and customers have any less of an issue in terms of making them work.

Michael Warrilow

The solicitation will be broad enough to accommodate a wide variety of product types, including national and regional vendors. We expect that the solicitation will lead to a healthy competition among potential providers.

Linda M. Springer

Microsoft has designed a client-server system to run on the infrastructure of numerous vendors. This is something that the company has mastered in the PC world.

William Cooper

Because small businesses are so diverse, it isn't possible for vendors and service providers to effectively reach all vertical markets with specialized programs.

Mary Porter

Since nobody knows yet which of these positions will prove truer, most major vendors are trying to cover all the eventualities. They want to make sure they have a product for every type of consumer who walks into a retail store.

Vamsi Sistla

Reynolds' goal is to make dealers aware of which third-party vendors are accessing their system and arm them so they can make informed decisions on how to protect their data.

Bob Schaefer

It's not unsafe. It's not a safety issue. It's really an issue of maintaining the appearance of the meat. But we had already contacted our third-party vendors, and they're working through it. I would expect that they'll discontinue it as quickly as they can.

Lynn Marmer

Hard times persist in the PC market, but vendors are working diligently to stimulate growth and the outlook has started to improve in the United States and Europe.

Loren Loverde

Different vendors bring different strengths to SOX compliance.

John Hagerty

Our research indicates that there will be a huge surge in ERP spending in 2006. With companies of all sizes growing their ERP budgets, this is bound to be a banner year for top vendors in this space.

Jim Shepherd

What we're doing is going through and maximizing real estate in each store, which is not a whole lot. We've had to go through and look at vendors that understand we're limited in counter space.

Cassandra Bailey

There's no way we can hand-write all of the checks we have to write to vendors without the computers. We couldn't conduct business the way we do now.

Brad Becker

We're hoping for a large variety of food and craft vendors. We encourage any to participate - individuals, businesses, churches and organizations.

Gail Rogora

Just because [smaller companies] get gobbled up it doesn't mean the situation is any better. Instead of buying from 20 vendors you are buying 20 products from one vendor.

Michael Warrilow

All of us who attended the meeting -- including Microsoft -- unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors, and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished.

James Gosling

One of the things that struck me is that software vendors have been beat up in this sector for a while. But the consultants they use and depend on heavily don't come out as well as I thought they might.

William Band

Vendors can take months to create patches, and sometimes users grumble about that, ... But the alternative is to have patches that can be circumvented or aren't appropriate for the vulnerability. It's a difficult balance.

Thomas Kristensen

We have a current waiting list of approximately 153 vendors.

Donald Dodson

Rather than select one vendor over another, as some universities have done, we have elected to facilitate as many vendors as possible to insure competition and enable choice.

David Swartz

We don't discuss our relationships with our current vendors, and we don't discuss other manufacturers' business strategies.

Jen King

There may have been a lot more people downtown. All the vendors in the art fair were extremely pleased.

Larry Groce

At any market, you can see vendors who have been conventional farmers raising soybeans and corn. But they find they can make the same money from a half-acre of strawberries.

Neil Hamilton

You could argue that Intel does have a higher level of requirement to play with all the PC vendors on a level playing field.

Scott Randall

It's a very, very difficult decision, but it's one that, given the circumstances, is the best option for our employees, our customers and our vendors. That doesn't make the decision any easier.

Mike Albert

Nobody is going to go hungry if they want barbecue, though. We've lined up a good group of vendors who'll have plenty of barbecue for sale.

Thomas Laird

All these reports have something to contribute, ... Keep in mind that many vendors use extracts from the reports containing only the pieces you want to see.

Brian Green

We're in final negotiations with a couple of vendors, but we haven't signed any contracts.

Kevin Evanto

The industry did better than expected, due in large part to price cuts by vendors and demand for mobile PCs. Mobile growth came to some extent at the expense of desk-based PCs.

Charles Smulders

The Internet is gradually becoming more of a standard way to shop. It's convenient to use, especially as people are more confident now of using their credit cards online. Web vendors are giving customers what they want like free shipping or the option to order online and pick up the goods at the store.

David Berkowitz

It's a microcosmic marketplace of the vendors, who are dedicated to the customer. It puts the customer in more control than before.

William Bierce

They had gotten complaints from subcontractors and vendors who were not getting paid in a timely manner. As the complaints became more frequent, it was a sign the contractor was having some serious problems and would be unable to fulfill their obligations. That is when it reached the point to protect the commission's interest and take the steps necessary to get the project finished.

Joe Agnello

We have emergency orders placed with our vendors for clean-up supplies.

Chris Brathwaite

Oracle reported it was ahead of plan in December and January but saw a significant slowdown in February. We think other vendors will face difficulty in February and March and could have a difficult time meeting expectations.

Gretchen Teagarden

Eighty-five to ninety percent of our nation's critical information systems are owned by the private sector. It is therefore crucial that utilities organizations and IT vendors work together to close gaps in the security of this infrastructure.

Tom Noonan

We're in the middle of this intense competition, and these vendors are looking at all options to differentiate themselves to find a unique competitive advantage.

Charlie Buchwalter