Sales-and-use-tax vendor Avalara has enlarged its staff with a stock of sales reps from rival CCH. According to those familiar with the company, Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based Avalara picked up three of the 12 reps from the competitor's channel sales force. Over the last few months, Avalara has also continued to widen the universe of products for which it provides a sales tax engine. These include I Dev for e-Commerce, Everest, 3D Cart and Shop Visible.

Trey Resources, parent to Sage reseller SWK Technologies, has completed its name change. The company is now trading in the pink sheets as Silver Sun Technologies under the symbol SSNTD.OB.  The official positioning statement is that "SilverSun Technologies is involved in the acquisition and build-out of technology and software companies." Read more...

CDC Software has lost a court action in which bondholders claimed about $68 million in damages. Evolution, the bondholder, was granted a motion for summary judgment in the motion against the software company. Meanwhile, CDC is seeking injunctive relief and monetary damages of $295 million and punitive damages of more than $500 million it claimed CDC gave confidential information about CDC’s plans for an IPO to third parties, including hedge funds that trade CDC stock

Epicor continues to be peculiar when it comes to the channel. At its Momentum Partner Conference early in June it gave out reseller awards. At least, there’s one press release issued by E2b Teknologies that says it was given the 2011 Customer Satisfaction Award, include a nice quote from somebody at Epicor. Of course, Epicor has never publicly admitted having a channel conference that I can remember or said that it gives out partner awards. Read more...