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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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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Current Trends.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. The API is SOAP. apps out there. gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc.

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Allan also offers an analysis of the nonprofit micro-philanthropy applications, but says it is too early to speculate where things will be in the next 21 days or next few months. Application developers are going to go to where the heat is, and that heat is red hot at Facebook But longer term, this may change. Platform???

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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. Because it exists as an Open Source architecture rather than an Open Source project based on a specific platform, it is strengthened by interdependency as more nonprofit software providers participate.

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