Secondly in many cases product vendors do not have to bear costs incurring from sub-system adaptation work specific to their technologies.

RSG refuses to sign non-disclosure agreements with product vendors.

As a policy, Bastyr Dispensary only sells products that meet quality guidelines and product vendors are required to provide documentation to prove compliance.

"We built our strategy in collaboration with the myriad of new product vendors that were mushrooming at that time."

All are paid by salary, rather than sales commissions, which Mr. Roach figures will make both shoppers and product vendors happy.

Despite the restrictions, the Storage Decisions events are popular with product vendors.

Secure Computing morphed itself from a small defense contractor into a commercial product vendor over the next several years.

The product vendor uses international resellers network to sell most of their product licenses via its partners.

Burton Research, for example, enforces a cap of 20% of revenues to be derived from product vendors or service providers.

This has led to proposal of new naming systems from product vendors and industry groups.