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

NetWits

The technology world is full of buzz words that make up a language all their own. A significant challenge for traditional software, particularly for nonprofit organizations, is the lengthy implementation cycle, extensive IT staff resources, and investment in hardware to implement and maintain applications.

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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. This part of the stack includes web servers (Apache), database engines (MySQL, Postgres), version control (SVN, Git), programming languages and frameworks (PHP, Ruby, Zend). .

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The Nonprofit Common Data Model as an Equity Tool

NTEN

We don’t have a common language for collaboration between large software developers selling and donating their platforms to nonprofits. For nonprofit data, creating this language is becoming a self-organizing necessity in the same way that the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESGs) criteria are for the corporate world.

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