And the Winner Is...

I closed the polls on my contest at midnight (Pacific Time; apologies to my readers in Hawaii who thought they had three more hours to enter) on February 1. Next, I went through the 100+ entries and disqualified those that were over 100 words or lacked originality. I forwarded the remaining 26 to my boss, who volunteered to help me judge (she’s a sucker for a good contest: she also loves American Idol). She narrowed it down to eight, and from there I agonized over three. The winner of the free copy of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite with MSDN Premium Subscription is...

John Dukovich of Green Moon Solutions!

It was a difficult decision. I like that John works for non-profit and socially-responsible organizations, and his company may actually be able to take advantage of Team System’s features.

Congratulations to John, and thanks to everyone who entered. Just a reminder that if you’re a teacher or student, you may qualify for free or dramatically discounted Microsoft developer tools through the MSDN Academic Alliance program, and if you run a software company, you can join the Empower for ISVs program.

7 Feb 06 12:42 AM · Comments (3) · Tags: .NET, Microsoft

Comments

Posted by Nicola Canalini February 7, 2006 1:18 AM:

Just to say !!!CONGRATULATIONS!!! to John and also to Phil for the contest.

Posted by leon April 11, 2006 11:26 PM:

excellent stuff phil -- looks like you made a good decision.

Posted by Sohaib Munir May 14, 2007 9:42 AM:

I want to read John Dukovich's comment on which he won this software. I tried looking for it but could not find it. I want to see what was so convincing about his comment which made him the winner.