Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 20, 2009

In general, the activities of the big tech corporations have somewhat limited and indirect effect on nonprofit technology. However, today’s news that Oracle is going to buy Sun Microsystems has some very important implications. Tags: Open Source Software Technology Zen database mysql nptech oracle sun.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

" Given the natural affinity between the principals of open source development -- peer production, collaboration, transparency -- and the goals and culture of many civic sector organizations, it makes sense for decision makers and tech staff to at least keep up to date on developments in the open source world.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

He also runs the website [link] , a chronicle of the public good applications of virtual worlds for nonprofits, education and government. Nat started with Oracle as a sales consultant in New Zealand where he was born. Nat Robinson. Nat is also a private pilot, an ASA bareboat captain, SSI advanced diver, and keen surfer.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

Moreover, the application itself is as simple to use as painting by number. Start off in SAP Visual Intelligence by pulling data from a broad range of sources: Excel spreadsheets ("personal data sources") as well as many types of databases (for example, Access, Oracle, SAP HANA, BusinessObjects).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

It allows you to access 16 entities within the Kintera application, including lots of data about contacts, plus data about appointments and tasks. One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

He also runs the website [link] , a chronicle of the public good applications of virtual worlds for nonprofits, education and government. Nat started with Oracle as a sales consultant in New Zealand where he was born. Nat Robinson. Nat is also a private pilot, an ASA bareboat captain, SSI advanced diver, and keen surfer.

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