[ Thanks to Khoo
for this link. ]
“Computer Associates International is out to prove that even
when it comes to free software, money talks.“The company is scheduled to announce on Wednesday a US$1
million contest to promote usage of its Ingres r3 database, which
it is releasing into an open-source project this week. CA will
offer five prizes–topping out around US$300,000 for the
first-place winner–to developers who write the best tools for
moving customers of rival databases over to Ingres…”
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