Open Source Nonprofit Software

For years, software selection has had a huge impact on the world. Apache runs half of all the web sites. 65% of email traffic is sent via Sendmail. Roughly 20% of the internet using population uses Firefox to browse. These are all free software options that have made internet life easier.
While businesses have been wary [...]

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For non profits that have sister groups, affiliates, and chapters, the ability to organize their constituent information in one database helps them to better optimize their fundraising efforts.
MPower has recently introduced a multi-organization solution for this type of non profit organization. Thanks to this new technology, multi-organization non profits will have access to their constituent data [...]

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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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Adobe, a large, established company, recently adopted an open-source strategy.  Some people consider this a controversial change because releasing software’s code into the community allows any trade secrets or special company tricks to be immediately discovered.
However, several advantages exist for large corporations.  First of all, the market demand for open-source is increasing.  Additionally, development costs [...]

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According to Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, free open-source software (FOSS) is a bigger threat to Microsoft’s business model than Google is. Though competition between the two hugely successful technological behemoths is fierce, particularly in the wake of the failed Microsoft-Yahoo takeover negotiations.
However, says Ozzie, open-source software is a much more serious potential danger to [...]

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