Sage is expected to announce next week a deal to sell JobOps, the manufacturing software offered by Synergistic Software. Under an Endorsed Solutions agreement, Sage 100c customers can license JobOps, sold under the name Sage 100c Manufacturing, via subscription starting July 1. JobOps has been available for years to the Sage community. According to members of the channel, Sage signaled the deal with scheduled sessions for next month's Sage Summit conference.

In Morris County, New Jersey, a man who hit a Canada Goose with a golf club because it was keeping him from the ball, was fined in court after the goose died. Golf aficionados faulted him for using the wrong club. A wedge, experts said, would have lofted the bird into the lake and out of sight. Meanwhile, the person keeping score was baffled. "I can score a birdie or an eagle, but I'll be darned if I know how to record a goose," he said. ... There are reports that despite the fact Donald Trump has the Republican nomination sewn up conservatives are looking to block his selection.

Columbus has been named Microsoft's ERP Partner of the Year. That's quite an accomplishment for a company whose operations in the United States were struggling in 2014. The Danish company remedied its revenue challenges here with the purchase of Interdyn BMI and Sherwood Systems last year. I guess this can be looked at as buying your way to an award since revenue growth tends to be a major factor in these selections.

TaxCloud says it has recovered from a May 31 attack on its online system that left it with a 23-hour outage. The company, which offers free Internet-based sales tax software, reported on its website the intrusion and steps it took to recover and prevent another attack. The TaxCloud website said the attack happened at 6:02 pm. that day and describes it as "calculated and malicious." A status page says service was restored on June 1 at 5:18 pm EDT.