[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris runs as the conest platform of the 33rd ACM/ICPC China Regional Contest

[Jim Grisanzio]

Chengzu Zhou(Ricky) wrote:
> Hi,
> On Oct.11, ACM/ICPC begins its first contest of 2008 at Harbin
> Engineering University.
> About 110 teams(about 500 students) from 73 universities,5
> countries(China,Russia,Japan,Singapore,Korean) joined this event.
> It's our great honour to invite James Hughes (Sun VP,Solaris CTO,Sun
> Fellow) and Fang Li to attend the opening ceremony.
> About ten medias will report this event.
> In 2008,ACM/ICPC attracts 3000 teams from 400 universities to compete
> online in China.
> After the online contest,some of them will get the access to on-site
> contest.
> There will be 5 on-site contests in China ,part of the 33rd ACM/ICPC
> Asia Regional Contests.
> As technical sponsor of ACM/ICPC China Regional Contest, Sun provides
> OpenSolaris(Netbeans and SunStudio as Dev. IDE) as the contest
> platform,and on-site technical support.
> Professors of ACM/ICPC loves OpenSolaris's new feature,ZFS
> Snapshot,which helps them to zero the machines between contest phases.
> With Sun's support, ACM/ICPC China Official website will be launched
> recently,it will be running on OpenSolaris(GlassFish+Apache+MySQL).
> More pictures and news about ACM/ICPC,please visit :
> http://www.acm-icpc.cn or
> http://blogs.sun.com/rickyzhou/entry/opensolaris_as_a_contest_platform
>   

Hey, Ricky, that's excellent. Great to see so many students using
OpenSolaris. :) Thanks for the update.

Jim
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