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VMware Announces UVAC Winners

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hacking-with-a-purpose dept.

muff1253 writes to tell us VMware yesterday announced the winners of the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge (UVAC). The contest, which started at the end of February, was designed to test teams on their ability to create a "pre-built, pre-configured, and ready-to-run" application that could be packaged with operating systems in virtual machines.

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  1. What a great idea by dave562 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It seems like the top three winners are working in the right direction. I setup a virtual machine at home (albeit using Virtual PC) after Symantec kept quarantining all of the fun tools that I wanted to work with. Virtual machines provide a great environment for setting up network tools that might otherwise not get along with applications and services running on a production server.

  2. Re:Umm... why? by andrewman327 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    So the question is, if you are going to target your application to a virtual machine, why use vmware? Why wouldn't you use java or python, for example?


    The contest was sponsored by VMware therefore it is only natural that they used their own platform. Look at the domain of TFA.

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