This year's MAPICS User conference

   To the list,
   Did anyone happen to look at the Technology Expo page of this year's
   conference?  Being the  curious techie that I am, I wanted see how much it
   cost the vendor to be at the conference.  It is not cheap!  I thought
   MAPICS would be very open to have as many vendors as possible so that the
   Users could see all the neat things that exist for the MAPICS community.
    
   It looks like they are now going to limit the Vendors to ONLY those that
   have a "partnership" agreement with them AND they will only be able to
   demonstrate "approved" products.  So I guess if they have something that
   competes with them, you cannot see it.  So long to free enterprise!  So
   smaller 3rd Party Vendors that do not have this "certified product" or
   this commission kickback will not be at this year's conference.  How many
   vendors will be there this year?
    
   Why can't they be like JDE and allow whoever wants to come?  I read
   somewhere that they had a few thousand visitors to there last conference. 
   How many were at ours - about 1000.
    
   Looks like it may be even a smaller conference this year...
    
   IMHO

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