And the CODiE goes to...

Adam Trachtenberg of the eBay Developers Program recently posted about "the CODiE experience". (Yes, that's the silver award on Adam's desk bookshelf, in between the Masterview, RASCI the mongoose and the eBay apple).

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I’m proud to announce that eBay won a CODiE award for Corporate Achievement from the Software & Information Industry Association. This is like winning the Oscar for Best Picture, except that there are fewer celebrities at the awards gala, and you don’t need to worry about Harvey Weinstein.

The Corporate Achievement award is final award presented, and is given to the “corporation that enhances the overall development of the software and information industry.” Not surprisingly, competition was fierce.

Eighteen different companies made it to the second round of judging (most other categories have only four to six), and we were up against many industry leaders, including Amazon Web services, IBM, Red Hat, and Salesforce.com.

However, thanks to all the great work done by so many people, we were able to bring home the prize.

I had a fun time at the event, and it was a blast hearing “eBay!” called out from the podium, going up on stage, and accepting the award on behalf of eBay’s buyers, sellers, and developers. Thanks!