Feb 28, 2006 : VMware Has Virtual Appliance Contest

📅 February 28, 2006 - Virtual infrastructure developer VMWare (vmware.com) announced on Monday that it will hold a contest, the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge, offering more than $200,000 in prizes in an effort to encourage developer innovation with its virtual appliance tools.

VMware says its virtualization products VMware Player and VMware Server, available for free download at the company's site, can be used to build virtual appliances, pre-build and pre-configured software applications packaged within virtual machines.

The company says the challenge is open to participants around the world. First prize is worth $100,000, second prize is $50,000 and third prize is $25,000. Awards of $5,000 will be given to winners in each of best collegiate appliance, best consumer appliance, best developer appliance, best server appliance and VMTN community choice appliance.

"Virtual appliances are a better way to distribute and maintain complex software environments. With the introduction of VMware Player and VMware Server, we have seen a tremendous embracing of VMware virtual appliances across the industry," says Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMware and chair of the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge judging panel. "The Appliance Challenge gives us a chance to recognize and reward innovation from the community and promote turnkey software experiences through virtualization."

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