It's been a very good couple of  years for Apple. Mobile professionals of all types are adopting its iPhone and iPad in numbers. And that includes tax and accounting professionals. But when it comes to having Apple computing products in the tax and accounting office, it's just not happening because there simply aren't key applications for Apple platforms.

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Wolters Kluwer, the parent of CCH, had double-digit organic growth in earnings and revenue for its Tax & Accounting division in 2010 as the company produced an overall 4 percent growth in revenue. That came with sales continuing a strong shift to electronic services and services and away from print products. Software revenue grew by 5 percent in North America and what was described as "user growth in core platforms." Read more...

Drake Software has named Rocky Pattillo, a 20-year company veteran, as vice president of sales. Pattillo, who was assistant director of sales from 2005 through 2008, was most recently software sales director. He replaced John Sapp, who was promoted to the position of VP of business development.

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