Frank turns 14!

Frank Arrigo, The Godfather of TPN, today celebrates his 14th anniversary with Microsoft. And he's definitely one of the good folk there. If you ever get the chance to meet him, take it. Congrats buddy!

Comments

[Phillip "molly" Malone]

Congrats Frank. Its strange isn't it. I am coming up to 9 years at Progress Software. Started off as a Store person, moved into internal IT for the AsiaPac Region and now in Tech Support for the Progress Products.

Molly

[Cameron Reilly]

and who would have thought Progress would still be around??? :-)

[Phillip "molly" Malone]

Are you serious? (I am suprised that you do/if you did know who Progress is). (hang on, you could be having a go at me. I will assume you are serious and continue). As I blogged the other day, we just hit 1 Billion dollars of worth and since then we are closing in on 1.1 Billion. Not bad for a 25 year old company that is in the same sort of Markets with giants like Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.

Molly

[Cameron Reilly]

cmon man, of course I know who Progress is. I spent way too many years trying to integrate MFGpro installations with the 21st century. Why isn't everyone just using SQL Server like they should?

[Phillip "molly" Malone]

Wow, Your good. Well, no need to worry about those sort of concerns as we have clearly gone way, way past MS in the integration front and they are playing catchup with Indigo! They don't even have Version 1 indigo and we are past 6.1 of SonicMQ and SonicESB (and thats before you look at our XML Server and Orchestration server).

Molly

[Rob Irwin]

Yes, indeed, I'll drink to this. First came across Frank when working in PR around 97... then came across him every now and then when I was an IT journo for five years... then I recently had the pleasure again recently when I ran Hill & Knowlton's 'Breakfast Bytes' seminar on blogging. He's a good egg!