NetSuite also showed its reach by having Oracle president Mark Hurd make the announcement that NetSuite is buying Oracle Exadata (Since Hurd’s boss Larry Ellison is the controlling shareholder of NetSuite, I suspect it was in his best interests to be there.) There was a gathering of around 100 resellers on Monday, but that seems to have been kept a secret from even the NetSuite PR staff until I asked about it. The resellers I saw, outside of McGladrey, were overwhelmingly not from the traditional channel. In fact, I ran into only one I recognized from the Sage channel and no resellers smaller from McGladrey that handle Dynamics, not that they weren’t there, I just didn’t run into any and looked unceasingly. At a prior NetSute show, I found them easily. Baker Tilly, whose Virchow Kraus unit signed on this year, had a booth as did Hein CPA.  But most were companies like Explore Consulting and Demand Solutions Group, who don’t do on-premise.