| CA issues million dollar challenge to open source community |
Aug. 04, 2004
Computer Associates (CA) issued a million dollar challenge to the open source community today, aimed at fostering the development of migration toolkits for its newly open-sourced Ingres r3 database. The cash will be distributed to developers who create solutions that enable users of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive Enterprise Server, IBM DB2 Universal Database, Informix, and/or MySQL to migrate to the Ingres r3 database platform. Qualifying solutions will be eligible for cash awards of up to $400,000 per developer, the company says.
In a press conference at LinuxWorld in San Francisco today, CA senior vice president of Linux Sam Greenblatt reinforced CA's commitment to open source, calling the challenge an "important step for CA and the community." While CA could develop these capabilities in-house, issuing a call to action reinforces the company's role as a community resource and is a key step in its mission to foster open innovation, he noted.
CA has been embracing Linux with a series of initiatives and commitment to open source software in recent months. The company announced plans to open-source its Ingres database, collaborate with Java server software from JBoss, the Zope Web content management system, and the Plone document management software.
To be eligible for cash awards in the Ingres challenge, the projects must be placed on Sourceforge.net and available under an open source license. The majority of judges will come from the open source community and will help determine the winning projects, CA says. The contest is available to developers 18 or older and the submission period begins August 5, 2004 and ends on February 1, 2005. Winnners will be announced in April at CAWorld.
In a related announcement, CA released its Ingres r3 database as open source software today. Source code is available for download, here. The database is available under the OSI-compliant CA-TOSL license. The license is said to address indemnification for Linux, and provide legal protection for corporate customers.
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