But more seriously, I will just echo Joachim's email (since we talked about this subject for a length of time before he sent it, I saw no surprises there).� 30 minutes is sufficient to give an overview of product status.� If there is something of particular interest (and more depth) that a vendor has to say, they can submit other presentation proposals on those specific topics.

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2010/9/15 stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse@gmail.com>

all the vendors were given the same amount of time. And there are a lot of talk about their platforms in the program.

Stef

On Sep 15, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Henrik H�yer wrote:

> Just my humble thoughts...
>
> I watched the talks from Cincom and Instantiations , and was somewhat surprised of the very short time they were given. They are sponsors of the event, and should imho get more time to promote their offerings.
>
> The talks from the vendors was biased towards existing customers, and I think that the vendors should be given a chance to promote the offerings; show their usp's, showcase their references, present licensing information, prices etc. etc.
>
> Basically allow them to give the sales pitch, they would normally use to impress a prospect.
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