Online budgeting software company Adaptive Planning has raised another $45 million in funding. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company says that new investors include Salesforce.com and former Oracle CFO Jeff Epstein, who has been named as a senior advisor to the company.

Years ago, I owned a Dodge Demon, which ran very well (I got rid of it too soon). It was exactly the same car as the Plymouth Duster. The only difference between the two models was the name plate on the car. Presumably, they were minted this way because some customers that would buy Dodge might not buy Plymouth. And so companies like Sage grapple with the question of what to call the product.

Before Monday's keynote speech by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, there was a buzz that he was going to make a major announcement. It sounded like buzz that had been started deliberately. But after press releases were handed out at the Convergence user conference before the presentation and Kirill Tatarinov, head of the Dynamics operations spoke, Ballmer said that ERP products "are going to the cloud." And that was about it.