Microsoft has reportedly laid off about 60 partner account managers leaving smaller resellers confused about how they will be doing business with the company. The buzz is that there are still reps for nationally managed AX VARs, but everybody else is left with little way of interfacing with the company outside of websites. This is being read as a further step towards the validation of the view that AX is the favored child and that Dynamics GP, SL and NAV are somewhere down the list.

Of the CRM specialists named to the Microsoft Inner Circle at the Worldwide Partner Conference this month, one name is very familiar on the ERP side. And that is New York-based Infinity Info Systems, led by Yakov Wrocherinsky. Infinity has been notable as a top performer for both Microsoft and Sage, making the No.1 spot for Sage and also regularly being chosen as one of the top five Sage resellers.