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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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Bloomerang Appoints Tammy Hammond and Steve Byrnes to the Executive Leadership Team

Bloomerang

He previously served as a VP of Sales at SPS Commerce and at Oracle Corporation. Tammy brings more than 25 years of experience in software strategy and product management and development through roles with PGi, web.com and other technology leaders.

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Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations on August 26

Tech Soup

Rik ( @rikomatic ) has over 15 years of experience as a nonprofit organizer and educator using digital media to increase public engagement on important global issues, from the International Criminal Court to Internet Governance to the Millenium Development Goals. Nat started with Oracle as a sales consultant in New Zealand where he was born.

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

NetWits

Forward thinking traditional software vendors such as Oracle and Blackbaud have invested in technologies to deploy their solutions over the web by providing hosting services, often called “OnDemand” services, while retaining the ability to offer full-featured, customizable, and data rich solutions. Now, that's accessibility!!

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Some folks may not have gotten up to speed on more recent developments, however -- and might be relying on "stale data" about open source tools: "Not ready for prime time." " "Great for developers but not for every-day users." " "For geeks only." " "Doesn't scale."

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Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations on August 26

Tech Soup

Rik ( @rikomatic ) has over 15 years of experience as a nonprofit organizer and educator using digital media to increase public engagement on important global issues, from the International Criminal Court to Internet Governance to the Millenium Development Goals. Nat started with Oracle as a sales consultant in New Zealand where he was born.

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Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Marketing Pilgrim adds: Facebook is steadily refusing to participate in OpenSocial or the foundation, choosing instead to support Facebook developers. Facebook is credited with starting and fueling the development of social network applications. a public benefit???) and not for Google??? s not easy!

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