CEO George Klaus has finally owned up to the fact that has company  has a channel program, following Epicor's Five-Star award for Epicor's Partners for Growth Program. Now, this is very strange since Klaus has spent much of his time during Webcasts telling investors and Wall Street that the company is totally direct sales. Now, Klaus said he's proud of the channel program. But it's a strange pride. The company didn't issue a public statement when it named Sam Montana to head its worldwide channel in January nor has it issued a press release to announce the program, that I can find on Epicor's Web site.