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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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Bloomerang Appoints Tammy Hammond and Steve Byrnes to the Executive Leadership Team

Bloomerang

She has a passion for helping growing companies scale, and will focus on how Bloomerang can help nonprofits save time so they can focus on what matters most: increasing their impact. As Bloomerang’s CSO, Byrnes will work to accelerate new customer growth for the company.

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Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit?

Neon CRM

Operations & Leadership 10 Ways To Use A Nonprofit Database 8 min read Read Now DonorPerfect DonorPerfect—a company based in Montreal, Canada—is a software provider that serves a wide range of nonprofits with a specific focus on Canadian markets. Oracle NetSuite Social Impact Oracle is, of course, much more than a CRM.

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Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations on August 26

Tech Soup

He also runs the website [link] , a chronicle of the public good applications of virtual worlds for nonprofits, education and government. Nat Robinson ( @natrobinson ) is the vice president of marketing and business development for SlideRocket and was the company's first employee. Nat Robinson.

Oracle 68
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The Surge of "Software as a Service" and OnDemand technologies

NetWits

A number of companies have successfully deployed the SaaS model to hundreds of thousands of users, most notably SaaS blogger Phil Wainewright's four horsemen of SaaS , and in the nonprofit world eTapestry blazed the trail. Now, that's accessibility!! Predictable Technology Costs.

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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). .

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Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations on August 26

Tech Soup

He also runs the website [link] , a chronicle of the public good applications of virtual worlds for nonprofits, education and government. Nat Robinson ( @natrobinson ) is the vice president of marketing and business development for SlideRocket and was the company's first employee. Nat Robinson.

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