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VMware's Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Re:So send in something that runs under Xen by Negatyfus · · Score: 2, Informative
    From a link in the article:

    Q: What is a Virtual Appliance?
    A: A Virtual Appliance is similar to a 'traditional' Computing Appliance and is designed with a specific function in mind. The major difference is that instead of being built on a physical computing device, a Virtual Appliance is built using virtual machine and can be run on VMware Player, VMware Workstation, VMware Server, or VMware ESX Server.

  2. Mark Shuttleworth by Tim+C · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, I can't say that I knew of him, big name or not, so for those of you who were similarly ignorant, here is a link to his biography.

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  3. Slow down horsey! by GoMMiX · · Score: 3, Informative

    The documentation states you have to be a full time student.

    The article and most documentation fails to mention this piece of information.

  4. only 1 prize is student only by mincognito · · Score: 2, Informative

    From the site:

    First Prize $100,000 Second Prize $50,000 Third Prize $25,000 Five Best of Category Prizes -Best Consumer Appliance -Best Developer Appliance -Best Server Appliance -Best Collegiate Appliance * -VMTN Community Choice Appliance $5,000 Each

    * Participant must be a full-time student.

    See, the one asterix connects to the other asterix...makes sense that a collegiate appliance be written by a student, no?

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