CA issues $1m challenge to open source community
CA issues $1m challenge to open source community
Computer Associates has issued a challenge to the worldwide open source community to develop migration toolkits for Ingres r3, the open source licensed version of its Ingres database, with a prize pool of US$1 million up for grabs for the winning developers.
Under the terms of the the Ingres Million Dollar Challenge, open source developers from around the world are invited to create solutions that enable users of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive Enterprise Server, IBM DB2 Universal Database, Informixand/or MySQL to migrate to the Ingres r3 platform. Qualifying solutions will be eligible for cash awards of up to US$400,000, with a total purse of US$1 million.
CA announced the offer at LinuxWorld, currently taking place in San Francisco. The offer begins today and submissions will be accepted until 1 February 2005. Six winners will be announced at CA World, CA's annual user conference, which will take place from 17-21April 2005 in Orlando, Florida.
"CA's Ingres Million Dollar Challenge underscores our commitment to creating an optimal working relationship between ourselves and the open source community," said Mark Barrenechea, executive vice president of product development at CA.
"This relationship benefits CA and our customers by allowing us to leverage the cumulative talent of the community, while generating significant opportunities for open source developers around the world."
The challenge is open to developers in Australia and New Zealand who on the date of their submission of an entry are Open Source Community Members, of legal age, and are legal residents. It is also open to developers in the United States, Canada (except Quebec Province), Mexico, United Kingdom, India and China.
Full details of The Challenge eligibility and the official rules are available at http://ca.com/ingres/challenge.
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