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From: dlmiller@iquest.net (Doug Miller)
Subject: Re: Developers Competition Announcement
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dcs@mail.interpath.com (Tom Droege) wrote:
+
+DEVELOPERS COMPETITITON ANNOUNCEMENT
+          CHICAGO, SAN JOSE, BOSTON, RALEIGH/DURHAM
+
+      DURHAM, NC--March 1st, 1996.  Droege Computing Services
+and Digital Consulting Inc. (DCI) of Andover, Massachusetts will
+be co-producing a series of Developers Competitions to be held in
+Chicago, San Jose, and Boston.  Each of the these competitions will
+test a different aspect of software development.  The winners will
+advance to the 1997 Developers Competition to be held in
+Raleigh/Durham, October, 1997.  Final results will be published.
+Teams will be ranked based on their overall score as well as by
+relative ranking within development categories.
+
+      Each competition will require the contestants to develop a
+typical database application based on specifications detailing a
+real life problem.  Previous applications included a Child Abuse
+Tracking System, the Duke Primate Center Research Database, blah blah blah

Could this be a scam to get developers to write software for free, under the guise of participating in a competition?
