1.   All three Bay Area microfluidics vendors offer chips with slightly different characteristics.

2.   A few notebook vendors now offer Zip-drive options that fit in universal bays.

3.   A Mexican vendor offers a taste of pineapple guavas.

4.   Festival vendors will offer lots of food, beverages and souvenirs.

5.   For years, database vendors offered steep discounts and multi-year deals that lured many customers to buy more than they needed.

6.   Nearby, vendors offered Sinatra T-shirts.

7.   Pretty much all vendors offer a one-year basic warranty.

8.   Some vendors offered foot and back massages to the weary.

9.   The lunch vendors offer few compliments about the direction they think the nation is headed -- though they concede their own businesses are doing fine.

10.   To date, no vendor has offered the software-development community a distributed-object architecture that could actually work in broad deployment.