Share Your GlassFish Story

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Official Rules

1. HOW TO ENTER. To enter, submit your GlassFish story (screencasts, white paper, blogs, tech tip) to theaquarium@sun.com. Old published story will not count for the award. Your email address and phone number must be valid in order to enter the contest. Illegible, incomplete, or inaccurate entries, and entries submitted by mail or facsimile are void. Subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

2. THE GLASSFISH STORY. Your story should be related to GlassFish or related technologies. Do not include any company confidential information or details that may be inappropriate to share with the general public. You are expressly prohibited from violating any third party intellectual property rights, including copyright or trademark, or from engaging in unlawful or unsportsmanlike conduct in telling your story. Any intellectual property rights in your GlassFish story will remain yours. We will ask you for permission to use your name with your story on Sun's website and/or in other marketing promotions related to GlassFish, but do not guarantee usage of your story. We may list your story on this site and in other marketing promotions anonymously. We may award you an iPod or digital camera at our discretion. Whether or not we select or post your story and whether or not you give us such permission will not affect your chances of winning the Sweepstakes.

All entries should have a pointer to GlassFish download page.

3. ENTRY PERIODS. You must submit your entry online between April 24, 2008 and May 16, 2008 until midnight (PT).

4. DRAWING. At least one winner will be selected for each category from all eligible entries received by a random drawing conducted by GlassFish team at the conclusion. GlassFish team's decisions in the drawings are final and binding. The winner will be notified by email and/or telephone by end of May 2008 to claim the prize. If there any legal or logistic problems (like we can't mail to your country) that will take precedence.

5. PRIZES, ODDS OF WINNING. The prize include one (1) Cannon PowerShot SD 1000 digital camera and/or one (1) iPod nano 2GB. Odds of winning the award will grow for each worthy submission. Prizes given at Sun's discretion. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. The winner is not permitted to substitute the prize or receive its cash equivalent. Sun reserves the right to substitute the prize with a prize of similar or greater value at its sole discretion. Prize may not be assigned or transferred. Winner is solely responsible for any and all applicable fees and taxes associated with prize receipt and use. All other expenses and costs not expressly listed above are solely the winner's responsibility.

6. ELIGIBILITY. You must be a full time employee of Sun Microsystems, Inc.. To enter you must be a legal resident of the country in which you reside (except for residents of any country that is currently embargoed under U.S. export control laws, including but not limited to: Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria) and must be 18 years of age or older as of the start of the Entry Period.

7. ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS. By entering this Sweepstakes, entrants agree to: (a) be bound by these official rules and by Sun's decision relating to this Sweepstakes; (b) release and hold harmless Sun, its affiliates, dealers, subsidiaries, and their service agencies and independent contractors, and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents, including advertising and promotion agencies, from any and all liability with respect to acceptance, possession or use (or misuse) of the prize or participation in this Sweepstakes. Sun and its agencies are not responsible for illegible, incomplete, lost, late, damaged, destroyed, or misdirected or unintelligible entries. Sun reserves the right to cancel or modify the terms of this Sweepstakes if fraud, technical failures or any other factor beyond Sun's control impairs the integrity of this Sweepstakes, as determined by Sun in its sole discretion. Sun reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules.

8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. Sun and its agencies are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by participants, printing errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submissions in the Sweepstakes. Sun and its agencies are not responsible for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries. Sun and its agencies are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line-systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software or failure of email on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website or combination thereof, including injury or damage to participant's or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating in the Sweepstakes.

9. AFFIDAVIT OF ELIGIBILITY, LIABILITY/PUBLICITY RELEASE. The winners may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and liability/publicity release (the "Affidavit-Release"), where legal, in order to claim the prize. In the event the Affidavit-Release is not signed and returned to Sun, the winner will be disqualified, and Sun will select an alternate winner from the same pool of entrants. By accepting the prize, except where prohibited by law, winner agrees that Sun may use his/her name, address, city, state, photograph, videotape or any other likeness, for advertising or publicity purposes, and use statements made by or attributed to him/her relating to Sun or this Sweepstakes (provided same are true), without notice or further compensation to the winner.

10. ENTRIES, PERSONAL INFORMATION. All submitted entries are the sole property of Sun and will not be returned. The information collected from entrants is subject to Sun's privacy policy, which is located at http://www.sun.com/privacy.

11. WINNER NAME, OFFICIAL RULES. To receive the name of the winner or a copy of the Official Rules send an email from your computer with a clear return physical email address to [theaquarium@sun.com] indicating "winner name" or "contest rules" in the body of the email. Allow 5-7 days for a response.

12. SPONSOR. This Sweepstakes is sponsored by GlassFish of Sun Microsystems, Inc., with offices at 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054.

13. DISPUTES. Entrant agrees that: (a) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes, other than its administration, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by a court having competent jurisdiction located in the County of Santa Clara, California, U.S.A.; (b) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Sweepstakes but in no event attorneys' fees; and (c) under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to, claim punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the entrant and Sun in connection with this Sweepstakes, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of California, U.S.A., without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules.

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