Microsoft Master VAR Socius has signed Houston-based DYNx Solutions, which sells Dynamics GP. DYNx has become the 18th affiliate signed by Socius in 2012 and 1013. DYNx serves the oil and gas, manufacturing and lumber industries in Texas and Louisiana. Owner Dan O'Connell founded the company in December 2009 as DYNx Consulting after working at Dynamics VAR Interdyn Progressive Group, which was acquired by Aztec Systems, and Nextec. In 2012, he and Jose Quintero, the partner runs the Florida office, joined to form DYNx Solutions. The reseller also carries Dynamics CRM. After a somewhat slow start, Socius, based in Dublin, Ohio, has picked up speed in signing affiliates, although not as many as the SBS Group. The third Master VAR, Tribridge, has still signed only one in the same two years.