A 44-percent rise in sales and marketing expenses contributed to drop in earnings for SilverSun Technologies for the third quarter ended September 30. That was a factor in a 46.3-percent decline in net income on a 20.4-percent increase in revenue.

Thirteen Macola resellers who were terminated from their VAR Contracts have filed sued against ECI Macola/Max LLC, the company which owns the software package. The group this week alleged antitrust violations, tortious interference, breach of contract, along with other claims. ECI has not responded to a request for comment.

Columbus had good results for the nine months ended September 30. But once again that was no thanks to operations in the United States, the story for the company's year.

Oracle has been granted a permanent injunction against Rimini Street, which provides support for enterprise software. The Federal District Court in Nevada rejected Rimini’s effort to delay the injunction which prohibits Rimini and its Seth Ravin from continuing what a 2015 copy infringement trial found was unlawful infringement.