SOFTWARE
Rogue Wave Software chair, CEO resigns
Boulder-based Rogue Wave Software (Nasdaq: RWAV, $2.25)
announced Friday that Chairman and Chief Executive John
Floisand has resigned.
Kathleen E. Brush is now president and chief executive of
the software firm, which recently reported it had about 200
employees, though there have been significant staff cuts,
mainly out of state.
Brush was Rogue Wave's vice president of marketing and
engineering.
The firm said Floisand resigned for personal reasons.
OPTICS
Boulder-based Sporian gets defense deal
Boulder-based Sporian Microsystems announced Friday that it
was awarded a research and development contract by the U.S.
Department of Defense.
Sporian uses optics to sense conditions such as humidity,
temperature and mechanical shock.
The contract, to last into 2005, will be performed through
a partnership between Sporian and Lockheed Martin.
Sporian was founded in 2000 by former students and staff at
the University of Colorado in Boulder.
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