Frugal Friday: Interop, Trade Show Kvetching, Apple Airport Express, Kickfire

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“Bruce Armstrong is a database industry veteran who
brings 25 years of technology-specific development, marketing and
sales expertise to his position as Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of Kickfire. Armstrong began his career at data
warehousing giant Teradata Corporation where he spent 15 years as
part of the team that established the company as the leader in the
market. After the company’s successful initial public offering
(IPO) and acquisition by AT&T/NCR, he was named Vice President
and General Manager of the $500M Enterprise Solutions Division,
President of the Teradata subsidiary, and a company officer of
AT&T. Following Teradata, Armstrong held the position of Vice
President and General Manager of the Server Products Group at
Sybase, where he ran the company’s $700M enterprise database
management business. Previously, Armstrong served as President and
CEO of publicly-traded KNOVA Software, a leading provider of
customer service, self-service and intelligent search applications
that he grew from a private venture with innovative technology to a
public company serving some of the world’s largest call centers. He
also held posts as partner at Internet Capital Group (ICGE), where
he helped lead the strategy and management of software
infrastructure investments; President and CEO of CMPnet, where he
led CMP Media’s web-based applications and services subsidiary; and
Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Broadbase
Software (now KANA), where he helped create the analytic
application category for CRM. Armstrong has a Bachelor’s Degree in
Computer Science from the University of California at
Berkeley.”

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