Open Source Nonprofit Software

One of the largest U.S. chapters of the biggest multicutural women’s organizations, the YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas, has recently decided to use MPower open source CRM software to replace their previous propriety solution. While it has utilized proproetary software for many years, the organization has opted to explore the benefits of using MPower’s flexible and effective CRM [...]

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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 [...]

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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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According to an exhaustive analysis of over 250 of the most popular open source software projects, the security of these widely-used programs and applications has made rapid improvements in recent years. Coverity’s Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008 and discovered the elimination of over 8,500 software defects within the last two years.
To date, the [...]

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