It picked up Dynamics AX for Process Industries, from Athens, Ala.-based Fullscope. It acquired professional services software from New York-based Computer Generated Solutions, which serves a broad range of markets, including architects and engineers and advertising and marketing. Microsoft also purchased LS Retail for AX, a retail application from LS Retail, based in Reykjavik, Iceland, which continues to market LS Retail for NAV. And it bought a product from To-Increase, a subsidiary of Columbus IT Partner. Columbus IT Partner followed with a press release that said Microsoft had paid $5 million for Retail Chain Management and that it will spend millions for the Copenhagen-based company to develop the product. Referring to the fact that Microsoft got Navision from Denmark, Columbus essentially said, "There is nothing like a Dane." (Sorry, I can't help myself.) And to show how big organizations work overseas, the name the parent used compares with the Retail Chain Manager name give in the To-Increase press release. Since the other three companies are privately held, we won't be getting sale amounts from them. CGS and Fullscope did not make any statements.