Open Source Nonprofit Software

Oxford Archaeology, one of Britain’s largest excavation firms, has two main goals.  The firm seeks to find and preserve historical artifacts and educate the public on archaeology and history.  The cost-conscious nonprofit company chose to use open-source software to run the main bulk of their operations, from capturing and storing data to everyday business functions.  [...]

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Open-source software is commonly used in company infrastructure, including web servers and databases.  However, the software is not frequently used in the network that connects all the intricate pieces.  Networks generally involve routers and firewalls, places where open-source software has not been commonly used.
Several open-sourced routing programs have been created recently, most notably Vyatta.  These [...]

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When two friends use similar programs, one open-source, one proprietary, a host of differences arise between the two types. Compared with a hard to reach, unresponsive technical support team, open-source developers are usually passionate and eager to improve the functionality of their work. Free software creators have a vested interest in their products [...]

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