NetSuite has added the Estes Group, Fieldpoint Service Applications and OTT to its Solution Partner Program. The three newbies are a diverse group. The Estes Group sells Epicor 9 and 10 and OTT is a Dynamics GP VAR. Based in Estes Park, Colo., The Estes Group was founded in 2004 with CEO Bruce Grant as managing partner until he took his current title in December 2013.

Quicken, Intuit's pioneering money management tool, and QuickBase, the application development platform that never seemed to fit Intuit, are being sold to private equity firms. Quicken will be sold to HIG Capital of Miami, Fla.; QuickBase to Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, based in New York City. Terms were not disclosed for either deal. 

Rich Spring, who bolted from Sage  in January, has taken a job as SVP of field operations for Seal Software. Spring left the position EVP and chief revenue officer after impressing the Sage channel and serving 10 months in that position. Based in San Francisco, Calif., Seal makes contract discovery, extraction and analytics applications that are sold into the Fortune 500.

You have to give the sponsors of Accountex USA, the conference that was known as SleeterCon credit for creativity in writing press releases. The February 23 release that says Doug Sleeter will keynote the event and ooze praise with phrases such as "Highly sought after for his ability to engage and educate accounting professionals on modern developments ..." His own description about his status with the company however, was a bit different.