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Why you should care that Oracle is buying Sun

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

However, today’s news that Oracle is going to buy Sun Microsystems has some very important implications. It has to do with the fact that many, many nonprofit websites and web applications are built using MySQL, the most popular open source database management system. For us, it’s generally much more removed.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

As open source software moves more and more into the application layer, it is increasingly relevant to nonprofits. More recently, open source development has moved into the application layer. The new wave includes CRM (SugarCRM, CiviCRM) and desktop applications like Open Office and GIMP (a Photoshop alternative). .