Because of the holidays, there will be no newsletter emailed on Friday November 23. The next issue will be Wednesday November 28 with no newsletter of November 30. This also reflects the fact I am getting a new knee on Thursday, November 29.

Sage turned in a decent performance for the year ended September 30. So the phrase that seemed to sum up the August firing of CEO Steve Kelly appeared to be summed up by his successor, Steve Hare, formerly CFO.

Intuit says it has 140,000 subscribers for its QuickBooks Desktop Solutions. The numbers from CEO Brad Smith during this week’s webcast for earnings for the first quarter ended October 30, marks the first time in several years the software company has provided installed base figures for QBES.