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

NetWits

A number of companies have successfully deployed the SaaS model to hundreds of thousands of users, most notably SaaS blogger Phil Wainewright's four horsemen of SaaS , and in the nonprofit world eTapestry blazed the trail. So, the organization can avoid significant upfront costs in hardware and other supporting technologies.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008). These companies see open source as a way to distribute the cost and risk of developing software that they need to support their own operations. and licensing models.