For Construction and Real Estate products the totals are $600,000 for Diamond; $350,000 for Platinum; and $175,000 for Gold. But the Sage view looks completely different. Joe Langner, the EVP who heads the Mid-market Division, wrote that the change reduced confusing tier schedules from ten to 10 and the adjustments minor. "In addition, we introduced extensive migration credits, subscription credits, and multipliers—all counting toward tier thresholds," Langner wrote about the changes that went into effect December 8. But to some dealers also galling was the accelerator, the rate of increase in purchases VARs need to "keep getting the margins we had," said one VAR. That person continued that the 8 percent accelerator was out of line. "Sage expects us to maintain 8 percent when they can't," he said. I'd say it's another recruiting tool from Sage, recruiting tool for its competitors, although the amount of recruiting is down this year. Someone told me that when a market is stagnant, vendors start taking money away from their channels and this could be the problem with Sage.