rPath offers incentive awards for winners of the VMware Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge

Quoting from the rPath official announcement:

rPath, provider of the first platform for creating and maintaining Linux software appliances, today announced that it will offer additional cash awards to winners of the VMware Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge who use its rBuilder Online to build their virtual appliance entry.

In addition to VMware’s prize offerings, rPath will offer winning entries that use rBuilder Online the following awards:

  • First Prize – $10,000
  • Second Prize – $ 5,000
  • Third Prize – $ 5,000
  • Five Best of Category Prizes – $ 1,000 each

Contest entries must be submitted by May 26, 2006 and winners will be announced in August. For more information regarding VMware’s Ultimate Appliance Challenge and complete rules for the additional rBuilder Online awards, please visit www.rpath.com/vmware.

I tried rBuilder Online and found it very innovative. I covered it in a previous post.