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

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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: --- cut here 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. -- Glenn Maughan --------------------------------------------------------------- Object Technology Group, PhD Student | Ph: +613 90-32660 Department of Software Development | Fax: +613 90-32745 PO Box 197, Caulfield East VIC 3145 | Http: www.sd.monash.edu.au/~glennm Monash University AUSTRALIA | Email: glennm@insect.sd.monash.edu.au ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- cut here ------------- 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. -- Frieder Monninger fm@fm.rhein-main.de 35619 Braunfels-Altenkirchen ++ 49 6472 1449 Germany http://www.serve.com/frieder