Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 20, 2009
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.
Neon CRM
MAY 11, 2023
Since Network for Good’s pricing is based on the number of contacts in your database, your costs may escalate over time, especially if you’re a rapidly growing organization. Oracle NetSuite Social Impact Oracle is, of course, much more than a CRM. It’s an enterprise that provides just about anything you can find in the cloud.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 14, 2011
For those of us that depend on MySQL everyday, the buyout of Sun (which had bought MySQL) by Oracle did not bode well. A decidedly biased survey by the folks behind PostgreSQL suggests that many people worry about the health of MySQL in Oracle’s hands. There is no need to convert databases to switch to MariaDB.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
It actually has more to it than that, there is a drawing program, a database, a math equation editor and more. But then … Oracle bought Sun. I’ve already been using LibreOffice, and intend to stick with it, since IMHO, a good bet is that anything FOSS will flounder and probably die in Oracle’s hands.
Robert Weiner
JANUARY 11, 2009
I thought it might be useful to compile a list of all of the commercial donor databases I’m aware of. This list came from my head, my bookmarks, and lists compiled by NTEN and Idealware for their donor management software surveys (and I’m not certain all of these are actually donor databases). Oracle/PeopleSoft.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 7, 2011
I recently wrote a blog entry about LibreOffice (LO), the fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo) that came after the acquisition of Sun (the old holder/maintainer of OOo) by Oracle. It does have a drawing program, an XML editor, as well as a math equation editor, in addition to the standard word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool and database.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Machine learning is most likely being used to help with the data coding and categorization in the underlying databases. A team of four Google Fellows developed Delphi (named after the ancient Greek shrine that was home to an oracle who could predict the future) over the span of six months. You can read more about the methodology here.
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