One door closes and somebody slams the next one on your finger. …  With all the obituary descriptions of people’s favorite activities, I’m waiting for one that says “He enjoyed smoking, drinking, gambling and playing around loose women.”

Dynamics Communities, which hosts the Summit user group conferences, will hold Collaborate Canada in five cities next month. Each will be a one-day event designed to provide attendees with a variety of Dynamics product knowledge.

A group of six startups have been named as the first class join the Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem hub in Austin, Texas. The site is the first hub in the United States and is part of a global program for driving developing of cloud-based technology.