Sage acknowledges it had 15,000 attendees at last month's Summit conference, short of the 20,000 it promised. But the real question is how relevant all those bodies were. We know that the software company was advertising a $99 entry fee up through the start of the Chicago-based event. But there are complaints that Sage was handing out passes like candy and the attendance including people basically off the street.

A 91-year old woman at the swimming pool is a frequent opponent of mine in the game, Rummikub. For some reason, last week, she looked at me and spouted, "You're just a baby. I'm twice your age." I replied, "Oh, so you're 133?" ... A man in Rogue River, Ore., recently found pot in a portable toilet.

Questions about Oracle's pending purchase of NetSuite have the industry pondering the impact. And one of those has to been what Oracle will do with the NetSuite channel. Oracle has said it will continue to develop the NetSuite product line, along with its own applications. But that cannot be too comforting to the NetSuite channel and there is evidence NetSuite VARs are nervous enough to approach other vendors.

HighJump has developed an integration for its AccellosOne Warehouse Management System and Sage X3 ERP. HighJump said more than 100 Sage users have purchased the company's product for inventory control and order fulfillment. Sage has also selected AccellosOne WMS as an endorsed product.