Software competition
UPDATE ON THE 1994 DEVELOPERS COMPETITION: We have more teams using Microsoft products than ever before, more UNIX teams, more "family" teams -- 2 husband and wife, and 1 father and son. And here is the BIG NEWS! CANADA ties with North Carolina as the location with the most teams with 8 TEAMS. We also have teams from Venezuela (2), Portugal, Germany, England and Indonesia! RAD is the most popular Gold Medal category, but we have lots of teams in the GUI and Client/Server categories. ___ We are still accepting teams. ___ You can get the specs emailed to you for free on September 23rd by emailing me your Internet or CompuServe ID requesting the specs. ___ The Top 15 Teams and the Medalists will be strutting their stuff on Saturday, Oct. 8th. You can get a free pass by calling (919) 383-9749 and speaking with Marcus, Steve or Althea. ___ Habitat for Humanity is the client this year. We will be building a house and writing a software program for HfH. a. Language: FoxPro (15), Magic (10), Clipper (9), Visual Basic (6), Access (4), Oracle (4), PowerBuilder (3), C (2), C++ (2), Clarion (2), Progress (2), R:Base (2), 4GL, Access Basic, Advanced Revelation, COBOL, DataEase, DataPerfect, Fasport, filePro Plus, G++, GCC, M, Open Insight, Oracle CASE, PACE, Paradox, Perl 5, Power Pen PAL, R/Basic, SAS, Shiva, Smalltalk, Speedware, SQL Server, SQL Windows, SQLWindows, Superbase, unifAce, Unify Accell/4GL, Unify Vision, UNIX script, Visual Recital, VisualGen, VisualWorks, Wang Open Image. d. Hardware: IBM Compatible (46), HP 9000 (3), IBM 750P pen laptop convertible, IBM RS/6000 (2), Macintosh, VAX. e. OS: DOS (34), Windows (26), Unix (12), AIX (4), OS/2 (4), VMS (2), CTOS, HP-UX, HP/VX, HPUX, Linvx 1.1, Macintosh, Netware, PenDOS, SCO, SCO Unix, SUN UNIX, VAX, Windows NT. j. Special: Independent Developer (27), Single Solution (14), Corporate Programmer (6), Database Vendor (4), 3rd Party (3), Exhibition (3), Non-Relational (3), Husband and Wife (2), Corporate Programmer, Father and Son, Third Party. k. Gold Medal: RAD (48), GUI (23), C/S (17), OOP (8), MM (3). m. Location: CANADA (8), NC (8), MA (7), CA (6), OH (6), GA (5), MD (5), VA (5), FL (4), NJ (4), CT (3), PA (3), MI (2), NY (2), TN (2), Venezuela (2), WI (2), DE, England, Germany, IL, Indonesia, MO, NE, NV, Portugal, TX, WA. For more information Contact: Thomas Droege Droege Computing Services, Inc. 71333.3015@compuserve.com 1816 Front Street Phone: 919-383-9749 Suite 130 Fax: 919-382-7422 Durham, NC 27705 For more information visit the Droege page at http://www.nando.net Or download the file dcmp94.zip by anonymous FTP at ftp://ftp.nando.net/pub/droege dcmp94.zip contains everything you could possibly want to know about the competition and conference. For non-PC users, the unzipped contents of dcmp94.zip are also available on the FTP server. Or on CompuServe, GO DBA and download the file DCMP94.ZIP found in library 1. The specifications will be available on the FTP server and on the CompuServe DBA forum on September 23rd. Download SPEC94.EXE from library 1. The file is a self-extracting zip file.