--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Jerome Gotangco <[email protected]> wrote: > Although not directly related to their business, Google > also has SoC for the 5th year and giving out money as > code bounties.
IBM is the corporate sponsor of the Regionals and World Finals of the ACM international Collegiate Programming Contests, paying for accommodation and food in a 5-star hotel of 80 teams (3 contestants and one coach) from all over the world, every year. IBM also donates the prize money. So it is spending millions of USD so that student programmers will be encouraged to become excellent programmers. Silently, in the background, without advertising, Google pays for the fare of the contestants and their coach, so that all teams can fly to the World Finals. After the contest, Google flies a group of these programmers to various Google offices around the world, giving them a free all-expenses paid trip, trying to recruit them. But even Microsoft is doing something equivalent with their Imagine Cup. And Microsoft is spending millions for this annual contest, just like IBM and Google. But my original statement about Sun and IBM, on the one hand, and Microsoft and Oracle on the other, holds water, and I believe, is a reflection on the difference in the corporate "souls" of these two groups. Pablo *** _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
