More MBS Moves

Stockstad, a fan favorite among the Great Plains faithful, came to Microsoft via its Great Plains buyout five years ago. The move was first reported by Bob Scott, in his Consulting Insights newsletter.

Microsoft confirmed that Stockstad, most recently general manager of Microsoft Dynamics GP, SL and Point of Sale products, moved at the end of May. Her new gig is GM of Enterprise Segment Marketing within EPG.

Another, more recent, arrival to MBS, Craig McCollum is also moving at least part way into EPG. All of this leads one to think that Microsoft is serious when it says it will push CRM and ERP products into big companies where it will run more directly into SAP and Oracle. For more org moves, see here.

What? No Silverlight?

In other Great Plains related news, the guest list of the big reunion later this week is interesting. Taylor McDonald, now channel guy for Sage Software and formerly a big Great Plains VAR will attend. Taylor MacDonald founded MacDonald Consulting, a long-time Great Plains partner that morphed into a Best Software/Sage Software partner. Another Great Plains alum-now-competitor Dan Kraus of SAP Business One is also allegedly winging to Fargo for the big event.

Most interestingly, the Great Plains Reunion Web site detailing the guest list and festivities coming up later this week in Fargo, N.Dak. was most definitely created in Adobe Flash, not Microsoft's nascent Silverlight.

The party is private, ie. not Microsoft backed, buty ou might think someone would have wanted to showcase Silverlight, aka "the Flash Killer." Maybe the beta wasn't out in time. Or, as one tools watcher sniped, maybe the Great Plainsers couldn't get a Go Live License.