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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. Developers who code solutions that integrate with Kintera using their open API platform, Connect , can win $15,000 or $5,000 (not the $25 K their big logo seems to suggest – that’s just the total they will award.) Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. {

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source. Kintera uses something proprietary, as well as Convio. at 3:23 am I think your definition of SaaS is aspirational rather than factual. You are not obtaining the software, and whether or not you can see the code, or modify it, is really not the key issue here.

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Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

2 trackbacks } Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as publicly traded companies » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 09.01.07 There are definitely instances where companies buy up competitors to simply shut them down but I am not convinced that this is such a case. We have power and options in using open source solutions.