RKL Solutions, based in Lancaster, Pa., is emphasizing hiring staff with skills with both Sage 500 and X3 with the addition of Russell Griffith as project manager and solutions architect. Griffith was most recently business development director with Chardon, Ohio,-based reseller e2b Teknologies from January 2011 through January 2014 and was project manager with the VAR starting in February 2003. Before that he, was manager of MAS 500 PSG from February 2001 through February 2008.

AVF Consulting, a Dynamics reseller based in Baltimore, has separated its CFO and COO positions. Robin A. Carter, who had held both, will now focus on the CFO job and on her role as head of contracts and agreements. Aderonke K. Adelekan, who has been with the company since January 2013, has been promoted to COO. Adelekan was previously responsible for defining and implementing project management processes procedures. Before joining AVF, she was chief of staff/business office project manager for Fannie Mae from July 2010 through January 2013.

NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson is a generous guy. While reporting his company's results for the year ended December 31, he thanked those he said were responsible. In this week's earnings webcast, Nelson commented, "I feel I must thank our legacy EPP competitors as well. SAP and Microsoft, thank you for creating all this demand. Keep it up. Our data centers are standing by." That being said, the loss for 2013 was $70.4 million, compared to red ink of $35.2 million for 2012. Yes, yes, we know that's a GAAP loss and the company reported non-GAAP earnings of $19.9 million for the most recently ended year, up 4.2 percent from $19.1 million for the prior year.

Nearly seven years ago, Satya Nadella was on the verge of becoming the new president of Microsoft Business Solutions where he had headed development. Then his career took a turn and this week all news reports are betting on Nadella as the candidate who will be chosen to replace Steve Ballmer as CEO. It only seems like yesterday when Nadella and I were talking at Convergence at the Gaylord in Irving, Texas, and he was talking broadly about how great an upcoming Microsoft small business accounting package might be.