<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio@jdpfu.com><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, June 5, 2016 1:59:22 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Charlotte<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I never felt like the talks at SELF were anything like trying to market<br>stuff or even services. Well, except Redhat, which does an extremely<br>soft-sale. The talks are all from engineers, not marketing people. More<br>about How-To, not how-can-we-sell-you.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>ALS was similar.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>My comment is based on the trade shows I attend. Enterprise Connect, Networld Interop, etc. </div></div></div></body></html>