Shortly after Satya Nadella became CEO of Microsoft, my LinkedIn invitation to Tami Reller, Great Plains alum and Microsoft VP of marketing, was accepted. For some reason, I immediately thought "I wonder that means Tami is leaving Microsoft?" I put that in an email to a member of the GP channel. "She and Satya are friends," he replied. "And what has that ever gotten anybody in big business?" I commented. So of course, this weekend Reuters is reporting that Reller is leaving the company.