It is simple logic David...

You vote for the products that have been nominated. You can only vote once.

Look at it this way... Imagine a presidental election where during election night, new candidates for the office have been nominated. Their chances for election are.........zero. The process is both ludicrous and unfair...

Make sense????



>Why not? Actually, I agree with you and they need to dump it and either forget about it or try again.
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>>Maybe you need a version 2? This time have an open text box for other nominations.
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>>You cannot have nominations while the voting is taking place... The process is totally screwed up. And because of that....the plug should be pulled on the whole thing...
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>>>Maybe you need a version 2? This time have an open text box for other nominations.
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>>>>Hey gang,
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>>>>After about the tenth email that showed up in my in-box over the past couple days, I guess I should jump in...
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>>>>I know this is going to sound like Clinton (did not have sex with that woman) or Gates (we are not a monopoly), but Pinnacle and FoxTalk (and me) had nothing to do with setting up these awards. Seeing the mistakes, the categories, the mistakes, the available choices, the mistakes, the parameters, and, oh, yeah, the mistakes, well, we're pretty bummed as well.
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>>>>The vendors who were misrepresented aren't well served, nor is the community at large. And it sure makes Pinnacle/FoxTalk, the supposed "sponsor", look bad as well - which is really not the goal of being a sponsor.
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>>>>I'll add a few more items that I was puzzled about...
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>>>>- One of the books (my DevGuide) listed has nothing to do with VFP
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>>>>- There are lots of good 3.0 and 5.0 books that are still valuable (Heck, I've still got Winchell's 2.0 book here - it contains the classic Models of Maintainability chapter.)
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>>>>- Page through FPA, the vendor list, or any number of websites or other conferences and you'll see a number of other third party tools that weren't included
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>>>>- West-wind.com is missing from list of websites (as are other websites for other vendors)
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>>>>- Visual Extend is missing from the frameworks
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>>>>- Is SmartTools a framework?
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>>>>- R&R and Crystal don't belong in the same class as SFQ/FF
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>>>>- One of the training company names is spelled wrong
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>>>>- Several other companies were left out of the training company list
>>>>completely
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>>>>I've spoken to the folks at Pinnacle and we're all pretty embarrassed about being associated with this mess. Well, like Shaq said when he became a rapper and a movie star, "It seemed like a good idea at the time."
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>>>>Whil