RE: This year's MAPICS User conference

   Frank,

   How many of Agility's products are certified products?   Is your COFL
   certified?  Even though you developed ISL and MISL, according to the
   conference document you cannot demonstrate it.  You can only show ISL and
   MISL. Not even PPS, e-Kanban or Propagtor. And unless you are a MAPICS
   Services affiliate, you cannot talk about your services.

   Did I read that document wrong?  Because if I didn't, there maybe some
   very lonely vendors at this year's conference.  In the 15+ years that I
   have attended, there was only (maybe)  one instance of a problem from a
   vendor.  Even that was harmless.  Granted, I do see everything that goes
   on there.  But it seems to me that MAPICS is more concerned with filling
   there pockets with vendor dollars, than having customers satisfied with
   solutions that MAPICS cannot, has not or will not provide.

   Sorry if this sounds harsh but if you do not know me, I enjoy working with
   MAPICS software and I think that there are better than most products out
   there.  However, in the last few years, they seem to be more concerned
   with everyone else BUT their customers.

   IMHO

   >From: "Frank Geric" <FGERIC@AGILITY-INC.COM>
   >Reply-To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion <MAPICS-L@MIDRANGE.COM>
   >To: "'MAPICS ERP System Discussion'" <MAPICS-L@MIDRANGE.COM>
   >Subject: RE: This year's MAPICS User conference
   >Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:39:12 -0500
   >
   >Mr. Wolf,
   >My company has participated in the conference many years and the fees
   >for vendors have not increased appreciably in the last 5 years (at
   >least). I cannot speak for MAPICS', but I do know there have been issues
   >in the past with vendors that behaved "less than reputably". In some
   >instances they were disseminating very errant information regarding
   >various MAPICS modules and other competitive 3rd party packages. MAPICS,
   >I believe, made this move in the interests of protecting their partners
   >and customers, as well as their own interests. I am not aware of how
   >many vendors are registered for this years conference.
   >
   >It will be interesting to see how many attendees are at the event this
   >year - the last time it was held in Chicago it broke all records for
   >attendance. I do not anticipate this being the case, but we shall see -
   >don't forget there will be some FrontSteppers in the mix this year.
   >Hope this helps,
   >Frank
   >
   >
   > 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.
   >
   >
   >
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