And why is Quebec being left out, huh?

Les maudit anglais, encore?

JP (A Canuck in CA)

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Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Want to win $1 million? Try this


Want to win $1 million? Try this
Agencies | August 07, 2004 16:07 IST

Are you a tech whizard? Well, then Computer Associates has a challenge for
you which could win you a $1 million!

Computer Associates has announced the Ingres Million Dollar Challenge, an
unprecedented offer to the open source community to develop migration
toolkits for Ingres r3, which was released under the CA Trusted Open Source
License.

The unique offer is designed to leverage the global developer talent pool,
while providing substantial financial compensation to those who successfully
meet the challenge.

Under the terms of the offer, open source developers are invited to create
solutions that enable users of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive
Enterprise Server, IBM DB2 Universal Database, Informix and/or MySQL to
migrate to the Ingres r3 database platform.

Qualifying solutions will be eligible for cash awards of up to $400,000,
with a total purse of $1 million.

The challenge is open only to individuals who on the date of their
submission of an entry are Open Source Community Members, of legal age, and
are legal residents of, and are physically located in India, the 50 United
States and the District of Columbia, Canada (except Quebec Province),
Mexico, United Kingdom, China, Australia and New Zealand.

Full details of The Challenge eligibility and the official rules are
available at http://ca.com/ingres/challenge <http://ca.com/ingres/challenge>
.

CA announced the offer at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. The offer began on
August 5, 2004, and submissions will be accepted until February 1, 2005.

Six winners will be announced at caworld, CA's annual user conference, April
17- 21, 2005 in Orlando, Fl.

"CA's Ingres Million Dollar Challenge underscores our commitment to creating
an optimal working relationship between ourselves and the open source
community," said Mark Barrenechea, executive vice president of product
development at CA.

"This relationship benefits CA and our customers by allowing us to leverage
the cumulative talent of the community, while generating significant
opportunities for open source developers around the world."

Open source technology has become increasingly appealing to organizations
seeking to lower total cost of ownership while taking advantage of the
accelerated innovation provided by the open source community.

These advantages are particularly attractive in the database space, where
proprietary solutions can add significant cost to business solutions and
greatly limit the ability of IT to respond to changing requirements.

Because it combines open source licensing, advanced features and
enterprise-class scalability, Ingres is a particularly compelling
alternative to proprietary database platforms, said the media release.

Computer Associates is the world's largest management software company,
which delivers software and services across operations, security, storage,
life cycle and service management to optimize the performance, reliability
and efficiency of enterprise IT environments.



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