BlythecoDev, the development arm of top Sage reselling frim Blytheco, is now selling the former Sage Extended Solutions under the name bly|Apps, a group of nearly 800 applications no longer marketed by Sage. Blytheco plans to upgrade the top 170 applications to Sage Version 4.4 for MAS 90 and 200 within 12 months. "There's a good market out there and a demand from our customers for those products," says CEO Steve Blythe.

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Microsoft said it has received compensation from Salesforce.com under a patent infringement case it had brought against the latter company, but provided few details. In a press release, the Redmond, Wash.-based company said it had settled the cases including those Salesforce.com had also filed against Microsoft. The agreement gave Salesforce.com coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio with reciprocating coverage for Microsoft under Salesforce.com’s patent program. Read more...

With a burst of enthusiasm, Arxis Technology, which has a pretty good reputation around the Sage community, has signed on as a reseller of SAP's Business By Design. And David Cieslak, one of two Arxis principals, said the product "is truly impressive. It's not just ground up ERP software. It is truly a whole different way of looking at things." Cieslak said the implementation process and methodology is built into the software, and he believes that SAP has handed the product over to "whole different team and saying we want it to be successful and we aren’t taking no for an answer." Read more...

Activant Solutions, which sells specialized ERP applications, came out of the third quarter ended June 30 with a slight uptick in revenue on a 56.5-percent increase in net income, the later helped out by a $6.2 million after tax gain on the sale of its tools business. There was also a 4.2-percent decline in operating revenue. But still there was a big bright spot with systems revenues rising to $30 million, an 11.8-percent increase from $26.8 million last year which more than offset services revenue of $6.5 million, which was off just under 3 percent from $62.3 million a year earlier. Read more...