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CA's $1mn Open-Source Bounty Results

Posted by timothy on from the cash-nearly-in-hand dept.

Anil Kandangath writes "Last year, Computer Associates open sourced their Ingres DMBS and they also announced a $1mn bounty for open source conversion toolkits from other databases to Ingres. Well, the toolkits are up on SourceForge and the bounty has been won by three teams, two from India and one from New York. More details and links to the projects on the CA news page. This is one of the greatest bounties for open source software and will hopefully serve as a model for other companies taking this path of cheaper development and better code."

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  1. Re:Bad news for two of the guys... by Major+Blud · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, no kidding. With all of the buzz about Indian programmers losing customer data and now catering to the competition, sure makes me want to offshore more and more...

  2. Grammar by kirkb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A Correspondent in Mumbai | May 18, 2005 16:45 IST
    Are Indian's the smartest software programmers? It sure seems so!

    Are Indians the smartest writers? It doesn't seem so!

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    1. Re:Grammar by kirkb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      FWIW, I posted that with funny/insightful intentions, not as a troll or flamebait.

      FUNNY: Doesn't it seem ironic that a reporter who starts his story boasting the fact that Indians are so smart can't even get the second word in his article right?

      INSIGHTFUL: Maybe you've never worked on code that was produced by offshore talent, but I have. The quality of the code is good, but the documentation is quite disappointing. And what good is undocumented/poorly documented code?

      Oh well, it'll all work out in metamod.

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  3. blatent disinformation, please disregard... by Thud457 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    India! FUCK YEAH!


    or something....

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  4. HOT DAMN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A million buckaroos? That's a whole lotta' curry!

  5. Re:There's an idea by vk2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Compare apple to apple...
    1 outsourced decent Indian programmers = 4 decent programmer in America.

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  6. Believe It Or Not, Indian Programmers Vary As Well by Arren · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "It seems they over paid as well. You can get 4 Indian programmers for much less than $400K for 9 months ($11,111/month)."

    Just because that's above the prevailing price of programming labor in India, does not dictate that every Indian programmer is worth no more than $11,111/month.

    In fact, inferring that it does is just plain racist.

    If anyone here on slashdot were to make such a claim regarding the Western world ("those OSS developers were paid more than the median salary for their economy as a result of winning a merit-based bounty with their code..... they were overpaid!"), it would be decried outright.