Columbus It Partner the Dynamics reseller and software developer, has named Thomas Honore as of May 1. Honore was most recently VP and CEO of Oracle Denmark and had worked for that company since 2005. He replaces Claus E. Hansen, who held the post for four years. The company has made a lot of changes over the last few years and it didn’t hit me, until interviewing retail specialist AlfaPeople this month that Columbus IT had pulled out of reselling in several markets. AlfaPeople, which just entered the AX, had acquired the VAR operations in Germany, Latin America and other countries.

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Microsoft says that Dynamics revenue rose by 10 percent for the third quarter ended March 31, and by 7 percent for the nine months. That’s all of the statistics reported for the Dynamics line, but it compares to the 21 percent increase in revenue for the Microsoft Business Divisions, which is responsible for Dynamics. MBD revenue hit $5.25 billion for the most recently ended period, compared to $4.34 billion a year earlier.

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Epicor’s loss rose to $1.8 million for the first quarter ended March 31, an increase from $32,000 in red ink in last year’s corresponding period. That came as revenue rose to $112.3 million for the most recently ended period, up from $99.3 million a year earlier. The report comes following Epicor’s recent agreement to be purchased by private equity firm, Apax Partners, which will merge the operations of Activant into Epicor. Read more...

NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson received $3.61 million in compensation for 2010, an increase of 11.5 percent from the $3.24 million for 2009.  The biggest change was the $577,127 he received in non-equity compensation, a 78-percent jump from $324,311 in that category a year earlier. However, the total was still down from the $4.35 million he received in 2008. Chief technology officer and founder Evan Goldberg got $2.53 million in 2010 compensation, a rise of 8.6 percent from $2.33 million the prior year. Read more...