Sage says that organic revenue grew by 7.5 percent for the third quarter ended June 30, driven by a 34.2-percent rise in subscription revenue. Sage provided the information in a webcast of a recent trading update for the quarter. In trading updates, European companies do not provide earnings and revenue amounts. Much of the growth came in the United States and France, according to CFO Stephen Hare. However, Hare said, "We have started to see some impact in North America, where we have started to push upgrades and reactivation of Sage 50."

Somebody at the pool aimed a nasty, critical remark at me last week. I responded, "I've been disliked by a lot better people than you and I'm proud of it." ...  A Detroit man has been running a center that has fowling, a combination of football and bowling. Players try to knock down all 10 pins by throwing a football. I propose a new competition called "fishling", a combination of bowling and fishing. Contestants drink beer between each ball toss and casting of the reel—pretty much emulating real life.

The 2015 President's Club for Microsoft Dynamics looks smaller in two ways. First, the decision that businesses could not be selected for both this honor and the Inner Circle decreased numbers. This year, there are 110 and the 2014 list seems to have 190 names from a rough count. Second, in the reseller arena, the P.C. firms are generally smaller than the I.C. resellers. Now, both groups include more than just VARs—for example, Fujitsu. But for the more "pure VARs"—increasingly hard to define, size is the best divider.

The NetSuite formula has been rising losses and surging revenue and that held true for the second quarter ended June 30. Its loss hit $32.3 million for the most recently ended period, compared to $23.2 million a year earlier. At the same time, the cloud company turned in its twelfth straight quarter with revenue growth of more than 30 percent.