Tech Contests

The World Economy has taken a real hit. But this hasn't slowed down IT innovation especially in open-source. Jonathan of Sun has mentioned that this is the time when more of open-source would be adopted with the obvious reason of cutting down cost on proprietary software. Even though the gradual change to open-source software would be hard to gulp down so soon, it would be the only solution to keep their business from going out of business. The current crisis has not stopped IT giants from motivating tech enthusiasts from coding. A couple of contests are currently running which are worth mentioning :

• Cisco Developer Contest : http://www.cisco.com/web/solutions/axpdev/index.html
• Nokia : http://www.callingallinnovators.com/enter.asp
• Sun Code for Freedom Contest (for Indian Students only) : http://in.sun.com/communities/univ/codeforfreedom/