At the beginning of the year, Microsoft started a SQL Server 2008 Hero's contest, which was an open source contest to build a application leveraging SQL Server 2008 and one of the other newer technologies. The official rules were:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlheroes/pages/sql-heroes-2008-official-contest-rules.aspx
Ten finalists have been picked, and you can vote for the top 5 on the connect site.
SQL Heroes 2008 Community Finalists Survey
I encourage people to check out all the projects and give them a whirl. There are a couple of really neat ones in there, and not just my own, I am having fun playing with a few of the others that were submitted.
Glad you got in and I think you have a good chance at #1. Hell, I may vote for you :)
ReplyDeleteThere are some really good projects in the contest. I actually like one a little more than my own, but I won't taint the opinions of others until the voting closes.
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