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Our Microsoft Catalog Has Been Simplified

Tech Soup

We've simplified these names, and you can now choose the specific year or version on Microsoft's Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) website when you're downloading the software. Now there's only Windows Operating System Upgrade , and you can choose which version to download at the VLSC. and Windows 7.

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Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. I hope that they decide to go with an OSI approved license (they are currently using their own, which is a modification of the Apache license.

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OpenOffice.org to get a boost

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy. It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free?

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Great reads from around the web on May 20th

Amy Sample Ward

In response to your requests, I’ve developed this ready-to-use nonprofit marketing plan template for you to download." Interested organizations can register to win and find out more at [link] But, it's only going until June 4th, 2010, so they'll need to get on it pretty quick to be part of it."

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Linux, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and Me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I stopped at the license agreement. I popped in my Fiesty Fawn (Kubuntu 7.04) CD that I’d burned from a downloaded ISO, and rebooted. We’ll see how that works once I am able to download some of the good wireless GUI tools out there (like NetworkManager, which I hear is good.) I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m.

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News from NTC ‘08

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 6:12 pm Having spent a little bit of time to download MPower, I have to say I’m underwhelmed. But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. I’m looking forward to having time to digest all that has happened here. { Which is fine. 2 Tompkins Spann 03.21.08

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools.