Marc Linden has become EVP and GM of Sage’s Medium Segment Native Cloud Solutions. Sage made the formal announcement this week although Linden, who was previously CFO, saw his new title on the Sage leadership team webpage for the past two weeks or so.

Bill McDermott, who has been CEO or CO-CEO since 2010, will leave his job running SAP at the end of the year. He is turning the job over to executive board members, Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein as co-CEOs.

During our recent Danube cruise, my wife and I saw a show by me dressed as traditional Hungarian cowboys. That included a cart driven a taken of Hungarian gray oxen, who were often called upon to pull stuck vehicles out of the mud.