Al Galinot, a senior partner who was Streamline's VP of professional services, was named managing partner of the Sikich Dynamics AX practice. A co-founder of Streamline, Galinot was previously VP of professional services at Microsoft. The suggestion in this newsletter in the last two weeks was that we are likely to see a wave of large VARs buying businesses of significant size. That followed the December purchase of ePartners by Tribridge and this month's purchase of First Tech Direct by Copenhagen-based Columbus. The addition of Steamline would be a good pop to the $22 million in revenue for the firm's technology operations last year.