And that may be why one reader thought the last issue of this newsletter was tame. I have a good excuse: I've been well. But seriously folks, the major players are not making a lot of noise in a recessionary summer moving out of the dog days of August into the long Labor Day weekend when a lot of Americans aren't laboring and it ain't just because of the holiday. Cost-cutting includes postponed shows with NetSuite the latest company to move a planned conference. Its October user/reseller conference has been pushed to April. Details are still being ironed out. Infor turned its Inforum 2009 into a virtual conference which will be held on October 20 and 21, citing the expense that travel represented for its users. A year ago, AccountMate postponed its Synergy reseller conference, but will be holding this year's in the regular season, specifically October 17 through 21. Intuit is holding a conference for resellers of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions from October 5 to 8 in Chicago. But some time ago it dropped the user conference that has usually run consecutively with the VAR confab.