Infor, which has been in the hands of CEO Jim Schaper for at least eight years (company history on the Web is lacking in detail), has turned its operations over to Charles Phillips. With Phillips taking over the CEO's job, Schaper has become chairman and will also serve as a senior operating partner at Golden Gate Capital, Infor's primary shareholder. Phillips was most recently president of Oracle.

Khameleon Software, which markers project accounting and dealer business systems, has agreed to integrate F9 Professional Version 5 with the Khameleon Software Suite. Utilizing enhancements to the Excel 2007 user interface, new Task Panes in Khameleon’s software allows users to interact with F9 directly from the Excel spreadsheet, enabling faster output and reporting results. New reporting controls display in a drop-down format for quick selection of filters, the company says.

Revenue for Microsoft's Dynamics software line rose 4 percent for the first quarter ended June 30. The statistic was the only information that is normally provided in Microsoft’s SEC filings. Otherwise, Dynamics results are buried within the Microsoft Business Division. The largest contributor to the division's results are the Office applications, which increased business revenue by 11 percent and consumer revenue by 26 percent.

Intuit has implemented a commission system for sales of its QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions. While I thought this was part of an effort to stymie the channel conflict that has driven many traditional resellers from selling the mid-market version of QuickBooks, one reseller said it was an effort to curtail cut-throat pricing between the VARs themselves. The new system has Intuit making the sale at the Intuit price and paying its resellers a post-sale commission.