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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Deepak Gupta [mailto:deepak.gupta@nectechnologies.in]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 13, 2017 10:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> SaintRossy, James <James_SaintRossy@comcast.com>; openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] Guidance on Vendor Specific Presentations?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi James,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I think we should avoid talk which looks like marketing talk by vendor.. if it is closed source and vendor specific, then
lets discourage it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> SaintRossy, James [<a href="mailto:James_SaintRossy@comcast.com">mailto:James_SaintRossy@comcast.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> 13 February 2017 22:00<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org">openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Openstack-track-chairs] Guidance on Vendor Specific Presentations?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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that are vendor specific and possibly closed source. Should that have any bearing on our evaluations?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks, James.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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