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OUR very own Don Casteel is mentioned in this news story!!

Sun has announced the winners of the Sun Grid Compute Utility Cool Apps Prize for Innovation Contest. The contest was announced earlier this year and offered up to $50,000 in prizes for developers who created winning projects for the Sun Grid Compute Utility. More than 100 developers entered the contest, generating 19 projects designed to build out the Sun Grid Compute Utility. Grand Prize awards of $15,000 were rewarded to Sean Fitzgerald for his Ganet project, and Ivar Chan for his Distributed Index project, a general purpose indexing engine. Don Casteel won a First Prize of $5,000 for his 3D Fractal Rendering project, an application that assists in the creation, rendering, and animation of IFS fractals in full 3D as volumetric density fields. More details on the contest and winning projects can be found at https://publications.developer.network.com/coolapps/winners/.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061114/sftu090.html?.v=79

You're right.  I don't think Don will complain about the exposure!