NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson often pillories the competition in the company's quarterly financial Webcast. This time, dismissing the Microsoft hosted software approach as "The Fake Cloud", he went after Dynamics GP with energy. And where NetSuite's New York event for prospects once was dominated by businesses switching from QuickBooks "This year, however, it was very different as almost everyone I met was replacing Microsoft Great Plains," Read more...

SWK Technologies, a Livingston, N.J.-based Sage reseller, did something it hasn't done before in releasing financial results before its parent did.  That parent, Trey Resources, gets all its revenue from SWK, but Trey's financials include debt obligations that have been a boat anchor. SWK listed revenue of $5.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, but a check of Trey's results from a year earlier indicates that's down from $5.75 million. SWK had net income of $52,223.24. Read more...

New York-based Sage reseller Net@Work made itself more truly a national VAR yesterday with the acquisition of Forepoint, which is headquartered in Seattle, Wash. Forepoint also has offices in Wisconsin and Portland, Ore., and its president, Kevin Cumley, works from a remote office in Montana. However, Alex Solomon, co-owner of Net@Work, says Forepoint also has customers in Hawaii, California, Alaska, along with other western states.

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Nonprofit software vendor Blackbaud had a 13-percent decline in earnings on a 5-percent increase in revenue for the September quarter.   But still, that revenue growth was the second consecutive quarter of improvement over the prior year, compared to flat to down results in earlier quarters. That translated into net income of $8.5 million for the recently ended quarter, down from $9.8 million a year earlier. Revenue rose to $83.2 million from $79.2 million. Read more...