The selection of mid-market accounting software resellers for Bob Scott’s 2012 VAR Stars rests on one basic principal: quality, not revenue, as the deciding factor in picking the 100 businesses that are selected for this honor. VARs from very small shops to the largest participants in the business have been selected in past years’ and in this year’s rendition.

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Microsoft was supposed to outline plans for going to the cloud with its financial applications during the keynote speeches at the Convergence user conference in Florida this morning. A message was delivered by CEO Steve Ballmer and Kirill Tatarinov, head of Microsoft Business Solutions that ERP would go to the cloud in the next major release of the product. But that message wasn't as clear as the plan outlined by Tatarinov in a press conference that followed the presentation.