[SOX] is a rallying cry for lots of disparate vendors in many categories.

John Hagerty

We have been working on interoperability with other vendors, including Microsoft, AT&T, Lotus and Fujitsu, for a long time. The business customers want interoperable products, and they're going to get them sooner or later.

Steve Sigler

We were in Portland one time and they had this big show with 1,800 vendors. It was huge. It was one of the best times we had.

Gary Weber

I've heard from vendors that the price is going up, but we don't want to raise prices during the holidays.

James Walker

Many of the issues come from software vendors trying too rapidly to get the software out of the door.

Christopher Klaus

We have a variety of food vendors and a variety of foods to enjoy throughout the night.

Nadia Skertich

Here in China there are probably eight vendors with ambitions to play a role in 3G. Our ambition is to maintain a level of around 35 percent market share across 3G (third generation).

Mats Olsson

Most hardware vendors are still testing their ACPI-compliant BIOS. Windows 98 is the first operating system that supports ACPI, and somebody has to lead the way, whether it's the hardware or software vendor.

Shawn Sanford

You have this large SIG (the Bluetooth Special Interest Group) that's made up of so many vendors, and everyone's coming at this from a slightly different angle, which makes for kind of a mess.

Chris Kozup

It's only when major handset vendors start bringing out handsets ... that the market can take off. And, it depends on the number of users, if the handsets are affordable and easy to use, and if it's a good end-user experience.

Andy Brown

Communicating with employees, customers, vendors and the communities where your company operates is just as important as communicating with the media.

Lee Brody

When we see voting machine vendors spending almost a million and a half dollars to lobby in our state over the past few years, we have to wonder whether this spending impacted the Legislature's decision to avoid selecting a voting machine themselves by punting the question down to the State Board [of Elections] and localities.

Rachel Leon

We've got more than 40 vendors together under one roof to join us for a great evening of shopping. It's a good way to get started on holiday shopping.

Lisa Johnson

One of our big concerns was negative reviews. We thought people would use this as a forum to bash items, and we wondered how we'd deal with vendors.

John Lazarchic

Kmart's significant losses and sales decline in the first quarter reflect the many challenges the company faced in the period following our voluntary Chapter 11 filing, ... These challenges included reduced inventory levels as vendors withheld shipments in the early days of the reorganization and reduced store traffic arising from the bankruptcy filing.

James Adamson

Also, there are economic studies which show that Europe has a trade deficit in software versus the U.S. in the tens of billions of dollars per year, so there is obviously some hope over here to become a little more independent from a few large and mostly American vendors.

Florian Mueller

When we take a look at how far the ripple will travel, from vendors, the local restaurants, local economy, hotels and everything that feeds off of those, it will have a big impact.

Deborah Williams

Vendors must find ways to persuade end-users to replace their PCs more frequently, ... Dataquest believes that the new generation of small form-factor PCs will be instrumental in making this happen.

Charles Smulders

Adobe is doing something that is the right thing to do for any vendor that has technology that has to do with the user experience. They are coexisting with AJAX. To some extent you could say that AJAX competes with Flex and Flash. It is widespread enough that vendors ignore it at their peril.

Ray Valdes

It's exciting to see how sales technology is adapting the roles of salespeople. You have cities like New Orleans now offering full, wireless connectivity, vendors releasing new reporting tools. It's challenging the way salespeople conduct business, and forcing them to respond to customers quicker and more efficiently than before.

Wayne Latterell

The bottom line is really that although you can never convince a CTO or CIO that security is as good as it needs to be, the truth of the matter is these vendors can pretty much deliver a high level of security if you need it. Enterprises will have to come to grips with that and realize that they can in fact provide good enough security.

Tony Rizzo

The markets for web conferencing and team-based collaboration, while still in an early phase of adoption, are converging and transitioning. Vendors are providing more integrated collaboration functionality spanning a variety of content, communication and collaboration technologies. Overall adoption will continue to increase as these technologies become more integrated with business processes.

Tom Eid

Product managers are in two forms of competition. They're competing with other vendors, but they're also often competing for share of mind with other product managers.

Peter Cohan

There's an increasing market pressure that they [Microsoft] are inflicting on our partners' marketing dollars that are perceived to be at risk if they begin to work with other vendors.

Ron Hovsepian

[Red Hat President Robert Young said the Intel/Netscape investment wasn't needed to support the company's retail effort but to gain credibility with corporate customers.] The key thing for growth of Linux in the commercial space is working with winners like Netscape, ... If we can prove ourselves with Netscape, other application vendors who haven't ported their software to Linux yet will join in.

Robert Young

There needs to be some intimacy with the channel. The vendors that are taking the time to talk to their government partners consistently become very educated on the unique nuances in the market and do creative things to make them manageable. They recognize that government transactions get complex.

Rick Marcotte

The buying experience for us was outstanding. We placed the order last November, and the press was installed within 30 days. The installation went quicker than we anticipated. It was flawless. We have many pieces of equipment from other manufacturers, and a smooth installation hasn't always been the case with other vendors. We are now tried-and-true Mitsubishi fans.

Keith Murphy

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

You guys (Enid) bring in a lot of good venders for the shows, ... There are some vendors and collectors here all the way from California.

Daniel Walker

We certainly do work with a number of vendor companies in China that support our work force here in Redmond. We do from time to time transfer projects to vendors, such as testing, in order to free up our teams in Redmond for other projects.

Stacy Drake

In the past, software vendors have shied away from anything that looks like a business service because it dilutes their operating margin. We will be very interested to monitor Sage's progress.

David Bradshaw

Internet piracy is always going to be here. It's not going away. (More legal Web sales) won't alleviate the problem, but what it is doing is showing vendors in this space that there's a growing revenue opportunity.

Stephanie Guza

Last year, we had 27 booths and this year, we are close to 30 and have enough space for 40. We also have more food vendors.

Tonya Jocelyn

[None of the vendors crowding this important category of network security is likely to make really big waves this year.] It'll be the middle to the end of 2006 before companies have NAC up and running within the switch environment, ... 2006 will be the major year of getting your infrastructure up to date and defining your networking policies.

Robert Whiteley

We feel we have a sound plan in place that will satisfy our vendors and continue moving the company forward.

Carl Johnson

I'm not going to comment on that at this point. We'll look at our options in conjunction with our lenders and vendors.

Paul Lowe

As the market grows, it's no surprise to see larger vendors get involved.

Ted Julian

A million and one different vendors. Unless they test everyone, the findings are meaningless.

Andrew Forman

To upgrade to IA 64, all you have to do is replace a cell board in the product. With IBM, you're going to have to switch systems, and with Sun, you're going to have to switch vendors.

Duane Zitzner

It's an early indicator that new technologies and new routes to market for standards-based technology can begin to crimp at the edges of brand-name vendors, ... If vendors aren't attentive to these things and don't have a mature story to tell their customers about open source in general, this could be very problematic for them.

William Hurley

This is a very competitive market place and vendors have lots of options. We're going to work with vendors to make our assortment as distinctive as possible.

Jim Sluzewski

Oracle's changed the game in terms of its acquisitions. IBM's stated policy is that it will not compete with applications vendors, but I'm curious if that will change going forward.

Alan Mcmillan

We are grateful for any and all of the vendors that come.

Ashley Hansen

It was a difficult operation in some sense because you're not looking for the legal vendors who have their booths set up. These are people who are usually selling out of their cars or set up shop in and around the campground area.

Capt. Lester Boney

It?s definitely grown. We have more vendors and customers each year.

Brandi Hoskins

While network cameras usage will grow within both existing infrastructures and in new environments, most opportunity lies in new installations. Vendors are already penetrating new verticals.

Chris Chute

Today most open-source-related companies, whether they seek venture capital or not, need to define their market and objectives in the context of technical maturity, commercial support and partnerships with system vendors and independent software vendors, licensing, and the vibrancy of their respective open-source communities.

Stacey Quandt

No one would recommend a provider if they weren't happy. Vendors check to see that the [provider] is competent and has technical capabilities.

Sanjeev Aggarwal

Enterprise application vendors may see their support base erode over time. I'd like to see vendors not only offer premium support package but a reduced level of service options for customers that need more support and less likely to upgrade.

Paul Hamerman

Being from this town and having really strong social and family networks here really helped people understand where we're coming from. People see that this is a good thing for the community. It employs people. It brings money back to local vendors, local caterers, local businesses. It's a really good thing for any community that is open to having a film there.

Ben Rekhi

Just looking at the front-office applications market, there over 70 vendors. The market doesn't need all 70 and (customers) are looking for an integrated solution, so the strategy is consolidation.

Brent Hill

Our initial goal was to provide a consolidated channel for our endorsed vendors to sell products to our franchisees.

Nikole Smith

Though it is clearly not Microsoft's responsibility to provide fixes to another vendor's product, we decided to offer the fix to customers because we feel they should not pay the price for Apple's programming mistakes, groundless allegations and courtroom antics.

Tod Nielsen

One of the challenges in this type of evaluation is in this particular space, so many vendors do the same thing. It comes down to fit. How does it fit with the culture of your organization?

Shar Vanboskirk

They have a breadth of capabilities and deliver what they say they're going to deliver. It's very important, because I can't really afford to baby-sit vendors.

Michael Rowe

There are two things about Sequence that make them an ideal partner for this effort. First, they have unparalleled technology for dealing with power issues associated with today's most advanced semiconductor manufacturing; and second, their commitment to interoperability with other EDA vendors makes integration a pain-free experience for our customers.

Jae Song

There is no charge for vendors to set up, but we do ask that any vendors interested in setting up and selling merchandise call us in advance.

Mary Dunn

What I think you're really seeing is that advertisers and electronic vendors are really going heavy on the Internet. This is no longer an experiment. What they're saying is this is real?Long-term I think [the search engine sector is] a great investment.

Bruce Smith

And the military has farmed out a lot of work on their systems to third-party vendors who can meet the specifications but may not give security as much attention as it requires, ... Security for any public-facing applications is critical.

Andrew Jaquith

They all have applicability to larger organizations like CA, and they can fill big product portfolio gaps [for vendors that] want to play in the data protection and information management markets.

Brian Babineau

LSI has achieved first pass success on this product. Using LSI, OEMs have the opportunity to source expanders and controllers from a single vendor, providing proven interoperable solutions and the lowest risk path to success. By reducing the number of vendors to be managed, these OEMs can speed products to their customers faster.

Robin Wagner

We've been talking to multiple vendors, and evidently, our conversations with Amazon yielded some fruit, ... because they announced their own initiative on the heels of our announcement. We can now hope or expect them to be our fist vendor.

Richard Sarnoff

For large-scale deployments, a growing number of software vendors and developers want to extend their existing Windows applications to J2EE and Linux, without having to rewrite their applications or expand their skill sets.

Yaacov Cohen

It only makes sense for the vendors to consolidate as well. You combine those two companies and it allows you to make some significant cost cuts.

Tony Despirito

This is an outdoor show that is open to all artists, flea market dealers, food vendors, civic organizations, commercial businesses, or anyone else who has an interest in the public.

Cheryl Ferguson

The unprecedented level of change has presented challenges all across the country for election officials, voters and election vendors. In many ways, we have all underestimated the effect this major change would have on the way we prepare for and conduct elections.

Mark Kelley

We understand that the availability of 64-bit applications from software vendors such as ESI is critical in helping our mainstream customers be able to easily deploy, manage, and use Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.

Kyril Faenov

I wouldn't say this is indicative of a trend or likely to happen again. A lot of the vendors are putting very large investments in place to prevent these sorts of situations.

Sheryl Kingstone

We believe our goals were aggressive when factoring the unique challenges facing our business units this quarter. We saw no improved market conditions in point of sale, and we continued to experience supply issues in some areas, yet we achieved our sales goals due to excellent execution by our employees and vendors.

Mike Baur

Blade Network Technologies' acquisition of Nortel's BSSBU will create a well-capitalized, independent, and highly focused company, which we believe can better serve the rapidly growing needs of blade server vendors and their customers.

David Helfrich

Financially, this is not a pretty picture for us. Despite our efforts and good intentions, we're struggling to get that $130,000 debt paid down. We owe a number of vendors for work they've done, and our credit is suffering.

Flavio Gonzalez

When we only look to our circle to find vendors, I find that insulting.

Ronald Green

We want to get rid of the (licensed) vendors that buy the spot only for Halloween weekend.

Carol Patterson

Faced with the prospects of competing with much-larger vendors, we believe that many will choose acquisition instead of trying to broaden their own capabilities or find deeper pockets. 2006 will bear out to be the year of super-consolidation for the SOA markets.

Ron Schmelzer

These trips had a large impact on the future of the City of Wilkes-Barre and where we are going on the financial side, ... The city was in financial distress. I'm very proud that we paid all our bills and our vendors.

Tom Leighton

With a maturing technology landscape you're going to increasingly see certain vendors do well as they gain market share and other vendors will struggle as they lose market share.

Brent Bracelin

We had a lot of people returning, and a lot of new vendors. It's going to be a good mix.

Gretchen Laffoon

Depending on the day, we'll have shipyard reps, vendors, engineers and the Coast Guard.

Jim Knight

It's basically different strokes for different folks. It's what they need, how big they want it, how much they want to spend. It crosses the board. So that's why there's so many vendors out on the market right now.

Manny T. Lopez

We actually went through a pretty extensive amount of research that was directed at a variety of vendors and invited people to submit proposals.

John Hoover

I can't even tell you how much people have called to help. Suppliers competitors, vendors, family, friends.

Larry Kuhn

The problem with most security products is that they require people to change their behavior, so vendors need to make it as simple as possible for all users to take the necessary steps to protect themselves.

Andrew Jaquith

All the demographics are in these (lists). You just get hold of a list of the numbers you want . . . and from there, you can go to all kinds of vendors that call those lists for you.

Jack Roeser

That's not necessarily the best situation since the one selling you the system isn't likely to admit major fault in a security breach. Accountants are perfect for this job because of our objectivity and independence, so with our security audit and scan, we're filling a much-needed void that many vendors do not want to, or can't, address.

Tom Mescall

By 8 a.m., ... there are usually two vendors out here, and an envious woman in the corner. If you have good food, business is good.

Jose Ortiz

Welcoming back previous vendors as well as the new vendors, the entertainers and the church groups sponsoring food booths is what has made us a success.

Lorie Swearingen

The quest for growth is forcing vendors to test the limits of PC price elasticity. The whole dynamic is compounded by the fact that buyers have increasingly come to expect sharp price declines.

George Shiffler

Vendor consolidation is a major trend that forces customers to consolidate their IT (information technology) landscape, ... They're redrawing their landscape without those smaller vendors who they see as being most at risk.

Peter Graf

If you believe in the industry-vendor relationship, vendors should mirror their customers. Consolidation may happen or it won't. But if it happens, others will follow.

Frank D'amelio

We're an outside event, so we just have to adjust, unless of course safety becomes an issue. We've moved a course or two and some vendors, but we're on rain or shine.

Frank Yohannan

There are fewer service providers and they are bigger and more powerful. It stands to reason that they want to buy from larger diversified companies. They'd rather not have to train technicians on products from five or six different vendors.

Timm Bechter

In theory, a merger between two big vendors means retailers would be dealing eventually with one accounting unit and one distribution unit rather than a different set of units for both companies.

Tom Doyle

The end result is that we will be contacting the vendors of these applications, asking them to partner with Novell to port their software to Linux. As you know, numbers speak volumes.

Scott Morris

McAfee is honored to have Tech Data as a customer, to receive this year's Difference Maker award and to be recognized by Tech Data among so many distinguished IT Vendors, ... During 2005, McAfee and Tech Data have collaborated on numerous initiatives that will increase the overall sales experience for our reseller community, and we are committed to building on this momentum during 2006.

David Roberts

The more vendors you add, the less money there is.

Sam Taylor

Criteria for inclusion differ, of course, as do the technologies recognized, but all companies share the following: Each has helped to create a market, redefine one or enhance one, and all of them demonstrate the capacity for customer-driven agile innovation. Compilation of the list is a year-long, collaborative but informal process with vendors, analysts and colleagues.

Hugh Mckellar

We buy many products off the shelf, and vendors say that nobody else cares about security, but they should. We don't want to be in the newspaper with the bad headline.

Steve Zimmerman

Actually, it's better for the vendors. The Sunday swap meet draws more people than the Saturday one.

Patrick Leonard

The ability for the directory to describe itself is important. These vendors will never agree on standardized schema, but they have agreed on how they describe their schema.

Jamie Lewis

It will be mostly plant vendors, but there will be other accessories like bird houses and garden decorations.

Dave Rusk

It's a case of getting close to the real decision makers and convincing them they're not an evil company and are good for China. They haven't played to the government as well as some other vendors, but they'll learn.

Joe Sweeney

[Other vendors will] have to say they're NAC or NAP compliant. If they don't have that stamp of approval, they open themselves up to obsolescence if it becomes the standard.

Robert Whiteley

We're working with vendors to tailor products for our members' needs. We view it as a service for our membership.

Karen Ross

Vendors are going to have to be more realistic about prices. We are going to see a prolonged period of underperformance.

Richard Donnell

Customers can largely blame themselves and not the vendors for these problems. Users have been clamoring for a one-stop shop for all their security needs because they had so much difficulty integrating all these disparate technologies.

Steve Hunt

It raises the bar for commercial products, because vendors have to offer value on top of what open-source solutions can give you.

Jason Bloomberg

Modeling has become a commodity. All power vendors have solved the modeling problem. The power vendors need to demonstrate credibility, and that will only come as the market matures.

Jim Sinur

The race is on [between technology companies] to get a complete XML solution stack in place and form those strategic partnerships with big vendors in each industry that help you standardize the doc formats. Once you've got that, you are in a good position to start driving the standard because you've got the big players.

Jeremy Burton

Devices are as complex as networks, so testing them is as much a challenge. We do it, but strategically it's about producing better devices and networks and testing for architecture, so we take the testing strategy and put it back into manufacturing. We must look to vendors with integration in mind as they develop product sets. That's the strategy we're trying to invest in.

Tim Kelley

Vendors are concerned with the alarming rate smart phone viruses are starting to come out now.

Anthony James

It's not a big show, like some of the ones in Louisville. But, because it's small, it will be a great opportunity to talk to the vendors, and receive plenty of personal attention from them.

Sharon Nichols

I think there is a concern that innovation only comes from two vendors living across the street of each other. Sometimes, we spend so much time worrying about what the other vendor is doing, that we stop figuring out what customers need to be successful.

John Wookey

What our standards will do is enable desktop application vendors to easily target the Linux ecosystem, not just a single vendor, to make sure they run across all the different distributions.

Jim Zemlin

Their challenge is radio technology. When Ensemble went out of business, their equipment supply dried up. Having most of the European vendors supplying A-band equipment to carriers overseas has proven to be a real value in helping to make our situation what it is today.

John Grady

We emphasize a personal touch. We are a trusted extension of our customers. That means we don't take referral fees from vendors. We pass along any discounts we can get to our clients. That strategy provides value to our target market.

Beth Miller

We have a number of vendors that will sell new and used model railroad equipment. Products will range from [elements for] low-cost, entry-level trains to rather expensive, high-end models.

Jeff Dean

There are good giveaways here, and the vendors are eager to talk and give information about their products. I met a labor support person who was helpful.

Lisa Perry

Dan brings the right mix of leadership and financial know-how to our company. His experiences with international telecommunications service providers and technology vendors make him an invaluable asset to our executive team.

John Fazio

The challenge for the search vendors has been to transform the search experience found on a PC to a mobile device.

Steve Arnold

Any individual who touches a Northwest aircraft will be fully trained in the Northwest maintenance program. Some were furloughed from other airlines. Some are from vendors that already work on Northwest equipment. ... We recruited from a rather large pool the best we could get. They're certainly not off the street.

Andy Roberts

This fun-filled family event will have a variety of food and drinks from the 18 vendors at Sunset Village along with a Kids' Corner, comprising of a number of games including the bouncing castle, Ice-Cream, Hoopla, Bingo and a Three on Three Basketball Tournament with Local Government playing the Members of Parliament, in a special challenge match that will highlight the competition.

David Wallace

Financial-wise, it has meant something to us, ... A lot of people will stop outside the city and get supplies. We get sales tax off the vendors that sell stuff during the concert, and that means probably a quarter of a million dollars to the county.

Murray Johnson

One of the catalysts that will assist in that is the Mendocino-EMC relationship. Hopefully, the giant gorilla that is EMC can help put some pressure on the application vendors to work with the concept of CDP. Up to this point they really haven't.

W. Curtis Preston

It's a very competitive environment in terms of pricing, and vendors began running out of room.

George Shiffler

Major vendors are using different types and amounts of fuel to power batteries of different sizes, so it will not be easy for them to deliver the volumes and scale necessary to drive down pricing.

Sara Bradford

We have more chocolate and vendors than we have ever had in Washington.

Phyllis Helphenstine

We are going with the vendors' commitments and we'll hold them to that. They told us they could deliver 500 a day and they are meeting that goal, and as long as that happens we'll be OK.

James Mcintyre

ISPs can buy off [these vendors] in bulk and resell for pennies per month per mailbox.

Paul Stamp

Token ring was a very elegant way of sharing bandwidth on a LAN, ... What killed it was LAN switching because all that matters there is price per port. Ethernet was simpler and supported by more vendors, so it was cheaper to build Ethernet chip sets.

David Passmore

It's a bit of a carrot-and-stick strategy. The carrot is to produce industry-accepted solutions that enterprises want to deploy. The stick is that the carriers are in agreement on these practices and will be checking to see that the vendors are in compliance.

Andrew Moran

Successful vendors will focus on helping consumers overcome the complexities of installing and using networked entertainment devices.

David Mercer

You didn't have the number of vendors competing in the marketplace like you do now, People are basically knocking each other over at the campus gates to get to this business, and that means students are the beneficiaries.

Tom Joyce

After each fashion show, we will also have a fantasy reception in order to showcase the talents of our vendors.

Florence Belcher

First time users need to contact the vendors to establish customer accounts in order to initiate ordering capability through whichever methodology they are authorized and opt to use.

Maria Papet

There are several different options, which we will essentially offer for free by using advertising support to cover costs. The ads will only appear in the Member Center [of Office Live]. Customers can also host advertising from different vendors on their Web sites. Microsoft will not step in between.

Baris Cetinok

Last year, quarterly mobile phone shipments didn't reach 200 million units until the end of the fourth quarter when vendors were keeping the channels' shelves stocked for the holiday rush. As vendors announced new products earlier this year and accelerated their time to market, we've already reached this milestone.

Ramon Llamas

We've met with the vendors this year. It has not been easy, I can tell you that, because you're talking about people's livelihoods.

Michael Rice

The concern is, with the extension of that program, a lot of the vendors that are designing and scoring these tests are dealing with volumes of tests that they have not experienced before, as the testing program in essence doubles this spring across the country. It's a high-stakes test, and accuracy is so important.

John Curtin

Last year we lowered prices on 5,000 items and we're continuing with our commitment to lower several thousand more. We work with vendors on negotiating an everyday value. The thought was we didn't want customers running all over town to find the best deal. We also wanted people to be able to buy things as they needed them and not feel the need to stock up.

Jennifer Ortega

Over time, the product will be upgraded in the same way that every other vendor's product will be upgraded.

Alan Baratz

In three years, the integration vendors are going to be building on top of either .Net or J2EE.

Scott Dietzen

When it comes to media processing, there's a need for maximum flexibility in order to address the widest possible range of customers. There is no one form factor that addresses all requirements, so vendors that are supporting all major platforms and offering both hardware and software variants are in a better position to meet all the emerging market needs in this dynamic sector.

Graham Finnie

It provides a common language for service providers and vendors.

Keith Willetts

In terms of driving automation through their product set, IBM is one of the top two vendors.

Stephen Elliot

The majors are all taking positions. You'll see announcements from all the major storage vendors in early 2006. By the end of 2006, there'll be firefights all over the place, because all of the major OEMs will be competing aggressively against each other for this business, because it's new, it's exciting, it's high value-add. There'll be quite a firestorm by the end of the year.

Kirby Wadsworth

SCSL is not the same as open source, but it could mean big benefits for Sun. [SCSL] opens up the doors and lets vendors innovate who wouldn't consider it before because they didn't want to sell their souls to Sun. We expect to see a significant expansion of Java as a result.

Daryl Plummer

It changes every year. I call my vendors and ask what's going to be available. They tell me 'This is going to be coming,' and I make my menu from there.

Sarah Bowman

We expect both the rate of customer adoption and ecosystem building to accelerate even further in 2006. Concurrent with accelerated customer adoption, hardware vendors, OEMs, and software vendors are aggressively building products and solutions that enable and facilitate server virtualization.

Raghu Raghuram

There's a lot of smaller vendors doing real cutting-edge things and they've become pretty good at working together.

Anne Thomas Manes

Once a year would be preferable. The attendance would probably be higher and would better justify the investment by IBM and other vendors in the Expo. Twice a year seems too frequent. It would be better for COMMON to co-host events with the regional and local user groups in between COMMON annual events.

John Siniscal

There are a lot of vendors out there trying to be cheaper than Salesforce.com or trying to offer more or different features. That is not the best way to compete against a market leader, though. Instead, you have to be offering something that is truly special.

Denis Pombriant

A lot of students showed up, ... People milled around from shop to shop. The vendors were happy and the shops were satisfied.

Beth Wood

Instead of a 'one-size-fits-all' approach, Novell Linux Desktop can be customized to provide the right fit across different workstations in the enterprise, ... So businesses finally have a secure and cost-effective alternative to Windows that serves the customer's ROI rather than a vendor's proprietary licensing program.

David Patrick

I'm certain that as time goes on and the different vendors develop different types of machines, they will submit them for certification.

Jenny Nash

There will be confusion. Hunters, agency staff and vendors are confused by the ongoing change.

Dnr Secretary Scott Hassett

I'd walk into the park with him. He'd be holding my hand and he had this funny gait, and everyone would say hello to him: the vendors, the security guy, the receptionist. It was all so joyous. And then the team winning the pennant. For an 8-year-old kid, it was like I had died and gone to heaven.

Mike Veeck

I hope this will serve as a wake-up call for the product vendors that they have to think strategically about security and not approach it tacitly by tacking it on at the end of the 11th hour, ... In the Money.

Ted Julian

Basically, the Web presents travel vendors with an opportunity to sell their product at a lower cost. If they can sell it at a lower cost, they can also pass on those savings to the consumer.

Laurie Berger

I am excited to be involved in this major effort bringing together financial institutions, technology vendors, and consulting organizations. I am confident that my years of experience in the development and implementation of business and technology strategies will be an asset to this dynamic organization.

William Barr

As the global mobile workforce grows, so will collaboration vendors need to offer more flexible, integrated and cost-effective solutions to meet their needs. Suppliers successful at addressing these mobile workers' needs reflect the customer focus and commitment necessary to support the broad range of mobile devices in use today.

Stephen Drake

The point [the government] needs to concentrate on is Microsoft's tactics that are used with the largest hardware vendors and the bundling deals. It will be hard enough to prove that case.

Jack Cohen

Silicon vendors are answering the growing security requirements of today's embedded devices with specialized encryption hardware. Our Nucleus Cipher Accelerator plug-in is designed to fully utilize this hardware in order to maximize their performance for the embedded application and at the same time offer cost savings-a major benefit to our customers.

Glen Johnson

Thursday it was busy until 2 p.m., and then it dies until after 5 p.m., when vendors are busy again.

David Cline

Indirectly, the impact [of LSB] will be large on [enterprise deployments], ... As independent software vendors develop confidence that they can maintain a single Linux binary port for all LSB-conformant distributions, many more enterprise applications will become available.

Eric Raymond

The legislature at that time did not want the vendors to profit from ticket sales.

Ernie Passailaigue

Management and security vendors were doing the same thing and suddenly all noticed it. Good management or good systems management gives you security benefits.

Eric Maiwald

The PC market is in a very mature stage in its evolution, ... That is why vendors are expanding their strategies beyond the box, expanding into services and storage. You also see Intel moving into the rapidly growing area of communications chips.

Eric Klein

We function as [Groupware's] chief marketing organization. We sit in management meetings, meet with outside vendors. We work all aspects of the business.

Eric Hughes

Lots of large commercial vendors are getting into this market, and they have not shown dedication to the standards-based approach or to free access to the essential technology.

Eric Allman

SIP is going to force these vendors to stop being so proprietary.

Elizabeth Herrell

Accounting will likely maintain its place as the most popular EAS module as it is the core of any implementation. But the real hotspot was the reemergence of CRM. The improving economy liberated budgets, and Microsoft's entry into the market will raise the profile of CRM and boost sales for all vendors.

Efrat Drori