What is so bad about sales people anyway?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Dennis J Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net">dennisjperkins@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 07:39 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
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<pre>On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Dennis J Perkins
<<a href="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net" target="_blank">dennisjperkins@comcast.net</a>> wrote:
> If salespeople can provide information that people want to hear, then I
> don't have a problem. But how do we decide what is acceptable? Ask the
> group if they would like to have salespeople come in and talk about
> something?
>
In theory, you would only need to ask those who actually attend
presentations! We've had quite a bit of interest for virtualization
(-Vmware included), and that is certainly dominated at the moment by
non-free (in every sense) software. I'm a middle of the road person.
Any reasonably interesting technical presentation is worth my time.
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After reading the comments, my opinion is that we want a technical talk. If a salesman can do a reasonable job, then he can give the talk.
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