Rodent Regatta

is a relationship business. Typically VAR’s or resellers of some sort form deep relationships with client companies in their particular niche. Microsoft doesn’t have a history of building those deep, lasting relationships!

Microsoft Expands in Europe With Navision Deal. Microsoft said today that it was buying Navision, Europe’s fifth-largest software company, in a deal worth about $1.3 billion. By Paul Abrahams, Ft.com. [New York Times: Technology]