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An Open Source Website Personalization Tool for Mission-Driven Organizations

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As we work primarily with open source CMS platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, our tool is effective in its ability to integrate within the CMS as well as be flexible for organization-specific needs. Common ways to segment web users.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Web Server Software

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

On top of proprietary UNIX, people will generally run associated open source server software for web, database and development frameworks. On the open source side, Linux is by far the most popular, with BSD in second place. Both Linux and BSD come in several flavors (or distributions.)

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Browsers

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The browser wars between proprietary and open source browsers have changed in some ways from the days that it was simply Internet Explorer vs. Netscape. It definitely depends on who is gathering the data, but IE has about 44% of the market. It definitely depends on who is gathering the data, but IE has about 44% of the market.

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Nuggets of news from the open source world

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This is old-ish news, but the acquisition of companies behind open source software by big behemoths continues with the acquisition of Jabber by Cisco. It’s a great model for the vendor, when it works, but it encourages stasis in markets and silly lawsuits designed to horde, not grow customer value.&#

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The Hidden Cost of Open Source LMS

Gyrus

The LMS market is no exception. Open source learning management systems have become increasingly popular, and on paper they always sound good. The term free is usually a misnomer; there is almost always a cost associated with using open source LMSs. They’re free: how can you beat that price?

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News in open source and open standards

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Venture capitalists are liking open source more and more. More $ toward open source is a tide that lifts all boats. It’s still mighty small (still around 2%), but Linux Desktop market share grew from 40-60% (depending on who you ask) from last year. There’s lots of great details on Groklaw. Be Helpful.

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Free and open source tool #7: Firefox

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. Be Helpful.