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How not to treat an open source user community

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) to develop open source software. Zend seems to have done a pretty good job maintaining PHP while also doing business. Mitchell 10.25.07 Be Helpful.

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MPower Open keeps moving forward

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

2) The customers, as a general rule, check to the open source or open API box on their RFP and then hire the vendor to do the implementation… they just don’t have the technical chops to really dive deep into the software. at 3:59 pm Yeah, I certainly worry about that dynamic with company-led open source software.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

The late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, famously announced the post-PC era in March 2011 during the launch of the iPad 2. Jobs was as usual quite prescient. By 2009, there were over one billion PCs in use worldwide , and many more in use now. In the recession year of 2009, order volume increased 16 percent.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in September 2009. The post-PC era was announced in March 2011 by the late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, during the launch of the iPad2. The post-PC era was announced in March 2011 by the late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, during the launch of the iPad2.

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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Case Study: Moving to Google Apps

NTEN

My job was to keep everything up and running: the network, file servers, computers, printers, email systems, etc. In 2009, we finalized a technology plan. At this point, the servers were aging and needed to be replaced, and we needed new software and user licenses (MS Exchange Server), as well.