The company also named four finalists. Now, since a Webinar invitation that asks about reseller referrals shows 30 U.S. and Canada VARs, Deltek rewarded a high percentage of its channel. The list of recruits from the Sage world include the Fitzgerald Group of Sharon, Mass., as 2009 Growth Leader of the Year and Equation Technologies of Richmond Hills, Ontario, named as a finalist and as "New Business" Partner of the year. Marketing excellence awards went to another Sage veteran, Forepoint of Seattle, along with Jewel & Associates, SilverEdge Systems Software of Schaumburg, Ill., and Stambaugh Ness Business Solutions of York, Pa. I keep meaning to ask Deltek if its public relations department was a victim or cost cutting. This has been a strange company to deal with. Before Taylor Macdonald's one year at Deltek, I would periodically ask to be put on the press release list. When Macdonald was there, releases arrived. Then after he left, apparently the PR department, having seen its shadow, decided it was still winter and hasn't come out again.