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New kid on the block: BlackbaudNow

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The online help for BlackbaudNow is powered by the open source software MediaWiki. It is well hidden, but a somewhat savvy MediaWiki user will notice the telltale signs (the URLs are one giveaway.) Of course, proprietary software makers use open source software all the time, that’s not the problem.

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This guy is right on

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I think one of the problems here is that people see spreadsheets as *just* one component of an office suite. The ED wants file sharing or VNC but won’t even try to use MediaWiki to maintain basic documents. So someone like Sun think that they need to give equal time to making their PowerPoint clone and their Access clone.