Sun Microsystems
Solaris 10 university challenge contest
Sun Microsystems recently announced a competition for students and faculty in universities around the world to develop a project on Solaris 10 operating system and OpenSolaris.Challenge will run from Nov16 2005 to June 10, 2006. In the work, they are looking for creativity, innovation, originality, and user-friendliness.

Eligibility-Any student or faculty or university IT staff at an accredited university or academic institution can participate. At the time of entry, you must be the age of majority in your country.(more details visit the site mentioned bottom of this article)

Prize -Winner /winning team of up to four individuals from the same university will be awarded the Grand Prize - US$5,000 prize purse per individual, plus a Sun Ultra 20 Workstation. The winner's university will receive a credit with a retail value of US$100,000 good towards the purchase of Sun Microsystems products including Sun Fire x64 systems and UltraSPARC processor-based systems.

How to join
If you are interested to participate ,register in an online form. Student or Staff participants must also have their faculty advisor/professor or supervisor, complete and submit online a participant acknowledgment form. Your faculty advisor/professor or supervisor will automatically receive the acknowledgment form once you register.

The source code for Solaris 10 OS is available free at opensolaris.org .

For registration and more details on project submission instruction, log on to
www.sun.com/software/solaris/contest/univ_challenge.jsp