NICE-ESG-Libs Digest V1 #312

NICE-ESG-Libs Digest        Mon,  4 Dec 95       Volume 1 : Issue 312 

Today's Topics:
                               Contest


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Date: Mon,  4 Dec 95 21:00:12 +0000 (GMT)
From: fm@fm.rhein-main.de (Frieder Monninger)
Subject: Contest
To: NICE-ESG-Libs@atlanta.twr.com

look, what I found in the news:
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After the recent discussion about Eiffel and Java "capabilities".  Why
doesn't the Eiffel community take a note from the Sun marketing
campaign.  They have organised an applet building competition.  First
prize in the local (Australian) competition is a Sparc 5 and first
prize in the international competition is $1,000,000 of Sun equipment!
I believe I have the right number of zeroes!

I discussed the idea with a number of people at the recently completed
TOOLS Pacific conference in Melbourne Aust.  It received good
response.  How about it NICE?  As a promotion of Eiffel (we may even
be able to compete with the quality of components built with Java.)
and as a boost to the available libraries.

I for one would enter, even if the first prize is a little smaller
than $1,000,000.

Glenn.

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There was no real response whan I suggested this some time ago to

- this newsgroup
- the PR "director" of Nice
- some board members

I still think that this would be a good idea .. but I dont know how
to get some more reaction from nice than just silence.



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