Open Source Nonprofit Software

MPower users Precept Ministries International, Turning Point, and Amazing Facts have recently contributed three new product innovations for MPower’s nonprofit constituent relationship management software. MPower is proud to provide these new innovations to current and future users and are confident that these contributions will allow nonprofits to continue to grow and develop their own innovations [...]

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Microsoft is working to develop a new line of basic software in the attempt to counter the successes of open source software developers. The new basic software will be priced much lower than other Microsoft products in order to compete with the often free price of open source software. While this may be an interesting [...]

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Sangoma Technologies Corporation have been working to design a developer network for the open source community. Sangoma is known as a provider of PC software and hardware for both propriety and open source networking. This new network will allow developers to come together and help people and companies in need of open source assistance.
This developer’s [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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