In response to requests by the SEC staff about its form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2008 and for its 10Q for the second quarter ended June 30, NetSuite has said it does not have standard billing terms. I'm not sure this is a big deal, but the exchange of letters was interesting.

Deltek issued just over $2 million in stock to finance the recently announced acquisition of Reston, Va.-based mySBX. While Deltek did not release the terms of the acquisition when it was announced on December 15, the company filed a notice of the stock offering with the SEC this month, specifying that the securities were to be used for the purchase.

Nothing like a good cup off coffee in the morning at  H&R Block? OK, that may not be the first place most readers think of for the morning caffeine fix. But as part of its more people-friendly approach to retaining customers, Block is going to provide coffee in its stores for more than years. For anyone who thinks this approach doesn't apply to mid-market reselling businesses, guess again.

Infor has not been so much a quiet company, as a strange company. In terms of size, it's probably in a similar range as Sage, although Infor is private. It's got a lot of ERP products that have been purchased, like Sage. And it got a hint of Sage recently in announcing that it has hired Taylor Macdonald as its VP of worldwide channels.