CA's $1mn Open-Source Bounty Results

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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I'M AN OPEN ORIFICE, PLEASE FUCK ME!

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FP

[Anonymous Coward]

I have nothing interestig to say.

First Post

Where are the comments?

[Anonymous Coward]

Im still waiting for the half-truths, fabrications, and bold-faced lies that is the slashdot's poster's staple.

mn?

[Anonymous Coward]

MN Minnesota (US postal abbreviation)
MN (USN Rating) Mineman
MN Magnetic North
MN Main
MN Main Library
MN Managed Node
MN Manganese
MN Mantova, Lombardia (Italian province)
MN Mass Number
MN Master of Nursing
MN Matched Nodes (Nortel)
MN Materiel Need
MN Me Neither
MN Merchant Navy
MN Midnight
MN Minor (AT&T)
MN Minute
MN Mobile Network
MN Mobile Node
MN Monaco
MN Mongolia (ISO country code, top level domain)
MN Mononuclear Leukocytes
MN Montenegro (Yugoslavia)
MN Motor Neuron
MN Muggle Net (Harry Potter)

Hmmm, don't see "mn" as an abbrev. for "million" in there anywhere.

mqinus 1, T3roll)

[Anonymous Coward]

un3er the GPL. followed. Obviously and the bottom

Re:Bad news for two of the guys...

[balster neb]

Heh, interesting, I think I might know one of the guys.

I think the Harsh Azad on the list is the Harsh Azad who was in the same school as mine. He was a few years older than me, but I know that he was one of the l33t programmers at that time.

Hmmmm..... back to writing.

Frost pi5t?

[Anonymous Coward]

-The cu%rtains flew

Re:DEAR CMDR TACO

[Anonymous Coward]

Or he could just reneme the site to www.47-daily-apple-and-ipod-stories.org

shi7

[Anonymous Coward]

and was taken over oVer to yet another

Re:DEAR CMDR TACO

[Anonymous Coward]

There should be 6 sections on Slashdot:
Linux
Apple
Google
Copyright
Patent
Anti-Establishment (Microsoft, Bush, Conservatives, Religion, Government, etc)

That covers everything.

Re:DEAR CMDR TACO

[scovetta]

I thought Copyrights and Patents were the same thing
(ducks)

Also, what about SCO? Doesn't that cross Linux, Copyright, Patent, and Anti-Establishment? In fact, if someone modded up an iPod to do a Google search for SCO headlines, that'd make all six! Hooray!