Don Deshaies, VP of channel management, has left Sage North America. Deshaies joined Sage in February 2014 and left to pursue a new opportunity, according to a statement from the company. Since the statement says opportunity, not opportunities, I concluded he is going to another job. (Well, thinking now maybe not). While Sage searches for a replacement, Joo Sohn, director of partner programs will take care of the channel.

Three passengers on a recent SkyWest airlines flight from Chicago to Connecticut lost consciousness. The airline billed them for the improvements to their surroundings. It turned out later that all had  middle seats between two fat people. ... I was reading an obituary from my home area of Southern Indiana. There was an old guy who died who habitually asked to kiss women's hands.

SAP said its sales machine worked across the world as revenue in all regions was up by double digits. That analysis came during this week's earnings webcast as the German software giant released its earnings for the first quarter ended March 31. Total revenue was $3.86 billion, a rise of 30 percent from $2.98 billion in last year's corresponding period. While cloud bookings were up 120 percent, good old-fashioned maintenance revenue had 17-percent growth, coming in at $2.45 billion for the most recently ended quarterly, up from the prior year's $2.1 billion.