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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. Sun bought MySQL AB (the company behind MySQL) last year for $1 Billion dollars, and therefore, MySQL AB now becomes a part of Oracle, it’s primary competition. For us, it’s generally much more removed.

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Social Media and Cute Dogs Go Mobile And Other Cute Animal and Nonprofit Tales

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In September, they ran their 3rd social media challenge, in this case, the Oracle Online Action Challenge. Oracle made donations for all online actions (likes, comments, RTs, photos, etc) during Hunger Action Month , reaching a maximum donation of $25,000. Use visuals to tell our story and reach friends of fans.

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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.

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How Many Donor Databases Are There?

Robert Weiner

Oracle/PeopleSoft. Tags: Donor Databases Advancement Services. communitEbuilder. Oaktree Systems, Inc. Community Enterprise. community pearl. bromelkamp. Compass CRM. Compass Technologies. ContributorLink. Hill Systems. Contributor Relations. Cornerstone. Campus Management Corp. Synergy Development Systems. DenariOnline. Total Info.

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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). Tags: dave greenberg NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff. Commercialization of open source projects is another important trend.