Microsoft has rolled out the latest of its releases on the traditional Dynamics line this month with the announcement of Dynamics SL 2011, which follows Dynamics GP 2010 earlier this year. Musing over the contacts who thought the week's announcement was going to be about CRM Online, looking back I realized that SL is not the top concern of the people I was talking to. Win some, etc.

It's autumn and the Sage executives are starting to fall. OK, it's only one but the Sage year ended on September 30 and this is the period when executives historically leave. This time, it was Great Plains veteran Jodi Uecker-Rust, who has resigned from Sage North America for what were called personal reasons, by an internal announcement. Uecker-Rust, who was an key member of Doug Burgum's executive team at Great Plains, had served as president of Sage Business Solutions since Feb. 9, 2009.

AccountMate has produced a SaaS system for its accounting software, but instead of providing a multi-tenanted system it is preparing platform under which each user has a single instance of the software. "With most other SaaS vendors, they are involved in multi tenanted software; one copy is shared by five, ten, 100 other users," CEO David Dierke told attendees at his company's Synergy reseller conference this week.