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A cloud coding competition is coming soon, brought to you by The Register in partnership with IBM. For now all we can tell you is that IBM’s Bluemix platform will play a part in the proceedings. So let’s get the ball rolling with this call to developers to sign up now for a free IBM Bluemix trial. So what is Bluemix For most …

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  1. Hollerith 1

    Is this sponsored content?

    Or merely a very lightly tweaked press release?

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  2. SwordOfEnlightenment

    IBM is rather pushing for developers to get into Bluemix. I am not sure if they will be successful. Large corporations might be interested but Indie developers..... I am not sure. Bluemix it is not cheap: to run two 128MByte NodeJS instances 24/7 costs me about 70 Euro's per month. Just to show the stats generated by our (Dutch) smart electricity meter using a RaspberryPi, IoT Bluemix app and two NodeJS instances.

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  3. craigb
    Trollface

    Building an app for the cloud is like buying a vehicle for the sole purpose of consuming fuel.

    Would make more sense to build an app that uses the cloud, runs in the cloud <shudder> or takes advantage of 'The Cloud' .

    Or am I just being petty?

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