Epicor has postponed its Perspectives conference, originally scheduled to be held from November 9 through 12 at the Gaylord in Nashville, Tenn. It is now scheduled for May 6 through 9 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. From a choice of places I don't like, this is a pretty even swap. (After the first 20 visits, Vegas sort of loses its charm.)

Clients First Business Solutions last month took away Epicor Evangelist Award as the "the partner who has been the most enthusiastic about promoting Epicor and the Channel." And that's pretty good since the Holmdel, N.J.-based reseller has been carrying Epicor 9 only since November. The awards were given out in early June at Momentum, Epicor's partner conference.

Sage will drop its product brand names over the next two years in North America as it moves to the combination of company name and numbers that are used in the rest of the world to label its applications. That announcement was made this week at the Sage Summit conference by Pascal Houillon, CEO of Sage North America, in his first major speech before the company's channel. "We will be dropping the use of our brand names, Timberline, Peachtree, Accpac and MAS," Read more...

The teacher in my ice skating class last night was asking me what brand of ice skating blades and boots I wore. I said, “I don’t know and I don’t care.” I got a real discount a few years ago and got a discontinued style of boot and discontinued kind of blade that bore a retail price of $750 at a steal. A couple of years ago, I replaced the blades with a style that’s more suited for jumping and I might have to replace the boots. Read more...