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Cantaloupe Systems Hires Industry Tech Veteran Glenn Butler as President and Chief Technology Officer.


BERKELEY, Calif. -- Cantaloupe cantaloupe: see gourd; melon.  Systems announced today that industry veteran Glenn Butler will be joining their executive team as President and Chief Technology Officer. Butler will attend the Western NAMA Na·ma  
n. pl. Nama or Na·mas
1. A member of a people of southwest Africa.

2. The Khoikhoin language of the Nama.
 show with Cantaloupe and will begin full time employment in April.

Butler joins Cantaloupe after spending 15 years as the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at CRANE-Streamware. During his tenure at Streamware he was the architect of the VendMAX and DeliveryMAX software systems and worked to create the industry's first syndicated data service, InfoVEND. Butler has been an industry catalyst promoting technology and helping operators successfully implement item level tracking software systems using the DEX protocol.

Mandeep Arora, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Cantaloupe Systems, commented, "We are delighted to have Glenn join our team. His experience and passion for technology and vending fit perfectly with Cantaloupe's plans for future development and growth."

Butler will be responsible for promoting Cantaloupe's Seed(TM) Platform which allows vending operators to wirelessly monitor their machines. The data collected by the Seed(TM) system can be used for pre-picking and dynamic scheduling which provides tremendous route efficiency and improved ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot).  for both large and small operators. Vending operators can use the Seed(TM) Web Application to run their operations and can also send data from Seed(TM) to existing software systems such as those provided by MEI and CRANE-Streamware.

In addition to providing for route efficiencies, Butler noted that, "The Seed(TM) Platform provides a fantastic alerts feature that allows operators to be notified via e-mail, pager, or cell phone when certain alarm conditions occur at monitored machines. For example, Seed(TM) can immediately notify a service supervisor when an ice cream machine loses power, potentially saving hundreds of dollars' worth of product from damage."

Cantaloupe Systems and the Seed(TM) Platform can be seen at the Western NAMA Expo, March 23rd-24th, at the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. , Booth #256.

About Cantaloupe Systems

Cantaloupe Systems Corporation, www.cantaloupesys.com, 510-647-3785, headquartered in Berkeley, California Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington. , is the leader in developing complete wireless M2M M2M Machine-to-Machine (communication, mainly mobile)
M2M Minutes to Midnight (Linkin Park album)
M2M Mobile to Mobile (cellular phone)
M2M Member-to-Member
M2M Month to Month
 applications for vertical markets. Its unique system of remote monitoring (protocol) remote monitoring - (RMON) A network management protocol that allows network information to be gathered at a single computer. Whereas SNMP gathers network data from a single type of Management Information Base (MIB), RMON 1 defines nine additional MIBs that provide a  for vending machines, known as Seed(TM), has been successfully used by vending manufacturers and operators nationwide. Cantaloupe Systems believes that fast wireless information is the key to solving a myriad of industry problems and a cornerstone for maximizing profitable growth.
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