Open Source Nonprofit Software

A new study released by O’Reilly Research shows that there are multiple reasons for the steady rise of open source software. The top six reasons include quality, cost, security, agility, scale, decreased vendor lock-in, and innovation.
Open source software has the ability to decrease vendor lock-in, allowing open source software users to avoid the dramatics of [...]

[Read more →]

The Open Solutions Alliance released information from their first annual survey, which questioned its members as well as other open source software companies. The Alliance officials report an overall feeling of “much optimism despite a murky economy.”
A reported 83% of survey participants noted a steady increase in revenue for open source software in 2008. A [...]

[Read more →]

An alpha verson of Alitheia Core, a tool used to check the quality of open source software, has recently been released by the Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS). Several companies, academic institutions, and open source projects have been working on the development of the checker throughout areas of Europe.
A press release recently [...]

[Read more →]

Many people are familiar with the practice of using either a Mac or PC at work and the opposite type of computer at home. When searching for applications that will properly work across both Macs and Windows, many quickly discover that the applications for Macs are incredibly underdeveloped.
Experts in the field suggest that many open [...]

[Read more →]

There has been a lot of talk lately about the new types of open source software that has been developed in the last few years, but is it just that: talk. Is this software a good alternative or is it just a bunch of talk? I think it depends on what you are looking for [...]

[Read more →]