Steve Lublin, owner of Interdyn CFO, has died. Lublin, a resident of Orlando, Fla., died last month following a two-year battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He was 63 years old. Lublin and his wife, Kyle, founded CFO Consulting in 1989. The company has offices in Orlando and Tampa, Fla. It is a long-time reseller of Dynamics GP and NAV and recently took on Intacct. Interdyn CFO was No. 91 on this year's Bob Scott's Top 100 VAR list with $3.8 million in revenue.

Windows 8 is not a good strategic investment. That was the message consultant Randy Johnston of K2 Enterprises delivered to an audience at the AICPA Tech+ Conference in Las Vegas this week. Johnston said Windows 8 will represent challenges because it will "require end-user training. It's going to have a big learning curve."

A year ago Sage pulled Act, the venerable sales management tool, off the retail shelves. This month, Sage North America has shoved it back on the shelves, which is interesting in an era in which retail sales of software has become less important, but perhaps not unimportant.

Craig McCollum, who had important Microsoft and Sage jobs, has reportedly been named to head Epicor's retail sales. Epicor has not made an announcement and McCollum has not added Epicor to his LinkedIn page. But he reportedly started the new job on June 4.