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InterDyn Lanac Technology has opened Lanac Staffing, in partnership with Nsight. The decision to operate a staffing company marked a change of direction as the Chicago-based Dynamics reseller decided to sink its money into that avenue instead of picking up the Intacct financial line, although only temporarily.

Wayne Morris has been named as marketing vice president at Microsoft Business Solutions. Morris was briefly a strategic advisor for online budgeting software company Adaptive Planning after leaving MyDials where he was CEO from September 2006 through August and he was SVP of worldwide marketing at McData from January 2005 to March 2006.

Sage Pay, an online payment product sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland, is now available in Germany. Sage said that the German payment system is complicated and that the company can help provide a more flexible and scalable platform than those already available in that country.