ECI Software Solutions has notified all U.S. and Canadian Macola resellers their contracts will expire. It’s clear ECI, which owns Macola, is dropping many domestic resellers, but is not clear yet what will take their place.

Exact Software is giving manufacturers the chance to lease its full JobBoss shop management and control application. What's interesting as the market turns to subscription pricing for online applications, is that this is leasing of an old-fashioned desktop package (Stone-Age software as our friends at NetSuite would call it).