Taylor Macdonald, the former channel evangelist for Sage North America, has accepted a job a VP of worldwide channels for Infor, which is probably a company few in this market know a lot about. They should start learning. If Microsoft ever wants out of the Dynamics business, Infor is the company I could see buying it.

It was the third job for Macdonald since he and three other executives were ousted from the Sage American leadership in October 2007. He spent 2008 building a channel at Deltek and much of this year in a similar position at educational software vendor Promethean. Macdonald's critics, who write a lot of emails, view him as a short-timer. But there's a lot more going on here. In the first six months at Deltek, he recruited about all the VARs that company will ever need and I asked him what he was going to do with his time after that. Promothean looked like a strange fit--it has educational software, including some that produces pictures of lions and giraffes. I just didn't see that as meshing well. But before we get involved in any in-depth, and possibly flawed analysis, I would suggest that the Infor job may have found him. First, Infor, like Promothean, is based in his home area of Atlanta. And then there's this announcement from Infor that was released on May 11. "Infor today announced that Promethean, a global leader in interactive learning and assessment solutions, has extended its investment in Infor solutions with the purchase of Infor Expense Management." Hmmmm....