VMware's Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday February 27, 2006 @07:26PM from the get-rich-quick-schemes dept.

Natales writes "VMware has announced that they will be supplying $200,000 in prizes for what they call The Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge. Big industry names such as Tim O'Reilly and Mark Shuttleworth are among the judges." From the article: "Using open source or freely distributable components and/or your own code, create the most inventive and useful virtual appliance and win the $100,000 first prize! The Challenge is open to anyone worldwide and will be judged by a panel of industry experts with input from the community."

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Re:Mark Shuttleworth by kamerononfire · 2006-02-27 20:00 · Score: 2, Funny

A little company called Canonical? A small Linux distro called Ubuntu? Trip to space? Not ringing any bells? You call yourself a /. reader.. :P
Re:Mark Shuttleworth by Wonko · 2006-02-27 20:45 · Score: 2, Funny

Now you're just envious of my UID ;p

I know I sure am!
beowulf by muftak · 2006-02-27 21:48 · Score: 2, Funny

Imagine a virtual beowulf cluster in vmware! How much faster would your pc be with 100 virtual CPUs...