Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. What’s new about MPower is that it has very recently been released as open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2008

Venture capitalists are liking open source more and more. More $ toward open source is a tide that lifts all boats. Interestingly enough, lots of developing world countries voted against it. There’s lots of great details on Groklaw. Why do we nptechies care? Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Open-source framework startup Serverless Stack announced Friday that it raised $1 million in seed funding from a group of investors that includes Greylock Partners, SV Angel and Y Combinator. It recently announced more of a full-stack use case for building out APIs with a database and also building out the front end frameworks.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Supabase , a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue, with participation from YC, Mozilla and a group of about 20 angel investors. Some of them we built ourselves.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Open source code is integral to tech stacks at many large companies, but its authors rarely get recognized — let alone compensated — for their work. . Max Howell claims the package manager software he created, Homebrew, is the most contributed-to open source software program in the world. Image Credits: Tea.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Creating a great customer experience requires a lot of data from a variety of sources, and pulling that disparate data together has captured the attention of companies and big and small from Salesforce and Adobe to Segment and Klaviyo. For now the company is taking an open source approach to build a community around the tool.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

If you’re working for a company that handles a ton of data, chances are your company is constantly moving data from applications, APIs and databases and sending it to a data warehouse or a data lake. Airbyte is building an open-source data pipeline platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Activeloop , a member of the Y Combinator summer 2018 cohort , is building a database specifically designed for media-focused artificial intelligence applications. Activeloop image database. He says that there are 55 contributors to the open source project and 700 community members overall. Image Credits: Activeloop.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

In this case, it was finding the right open source components to build his software. As developers build modern software, they often use open source components to help build the application, and Openbase helps them find the best one for their purposes. The database includes 1.5 Today, the company announced a $3.65

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

million Series A to help companies build apps on top of Airtable databases; Appsmith secure a $41 million Series B to power customized internal business apps; Retool attract a $45 million cash injection for a similar proposition; and Thunkable lock down a $30 million investment for a no-code mobile app development platform.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Current Trends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How’s that donor database of yours? December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. and MPower at 0.4%.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

PingCAP , the open-source software developer best known for NewSQL database TiDB, has raised a $270 million Series D. TiDB handles online transactional processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP) in the same database, which PingCAP says results in faster real-time analytics than other distributed databases.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. Others I think about: CiviCRM had 4.8%, Organizer’s Database at 3%, Salesforce was at 2.6%, Democracy in Action at 0.6% In that trio was Organizer’s Database, the desktop open source DMS.

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The Verge

AUGUST 7, 2020

But nearly all of those password checkup tools owe something to Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned , which was kind of a novel idea when it first launched 7 years ago — and Hunt is now open-sourcing his website codebase so the idea can spread even further. Note, though, that it’s not quite happening yet.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story. “So this idea was pretty wild, in a sense that it brought a lot of a database tech structure on top of the data lakes,” he said. . But then you were limited by the size of the data.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus , the popular open source vector database for similarity searches — raised $43 million to scale its business and prep the company to make a move into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Richard North developed an open source solution called Testcontainers in 2015 to help ease this problem for developers. Today, the open source project is used by companies like Uber, Netflix, Spotify and Capital One. Working with, microservices-based development environments presents a unique set of testing challenges.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 14, 2011

I’ve mentioned this before, and I do think the conventional wisdom is that open source software (which includes OpenOffice.org, MySQL and Java) will not flourish at Oracle. It makes sense – Oracle has never had a culture of fostering open source software, and it seems unlikely to obtain one.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

For Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, those two worlds collided when they created the widely successful open-source graphics program, GIMP, as college students at Berkeley. To realize their ambitions, they created Cockroach Labs, the business entity behind their ambitious open-source database CockroachDB.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Supabase , which bills itself as an open source alternative to services like Google’s Firebase , today announced that it has raised an $80 million Series B funding round led by Felicis Ventures. The investors, too, are looking at Supabase because of its focus on its database. Image Credits: Supabase.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Chicago-based serial entrepreneur Dan Pinto has raised new cash and launched a new company looking to commercialize a years-old open-source project that purports to solve one of the web’s hardest problems — fraud prevention. The open source community was pivotal to our success thus far,” said Vasilyev, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

That’s because the open source tool is built on a graph database to allow the system to build semantic connections between documents, whether notes, research, information or PDF markups. Logseq stores inter-connected information in infinite graphs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

OpenOffice.org is a free and open source cross-platform office suite, which can read and write MS Office.doc,xls, and.ppt files. It actually has more to it than that, there is a drawing program, a database, a math equation editor and more. I hope that everyone reading this blog has heard of OpenOffice.org. And they did.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The founders of Rill first got into databases a decade ago when they started a company called Metamarkets, which was eventually snapped up by Snap in 2017. While at Metamarkets, the company built a database, based on the open source Apache Druid project.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Ethan Batraski is a partner at Venrock and focuses on data infrastructure, open source and developer tools. One of the most profound and maybe non-obvious shifts driving this is the emergence of the cloud database. It’s a good time to be a database company. Database companies have raised over $8.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Timescale , makers of the open-source TimescaleDB time series database, announced a $40 million Series B financing round today. He says that the choice to build their database on top of Postgres when it launched four years ago was a key decision. Timescale is leading the next wave of NYC database tech.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2011

CUBRID – Open Source Database Management System Optimized for Web. tags: opensource database toblog. Open Source ETL designed to bridge the gap between business and IT. MailChimp | drupal.org. tags: drupal modules toblog. tags: CMS opensource report toblog. Hudson Continuous Integration.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Neon , a startup providing developers with a serverless option for Postgres databases, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A-1 round led by GGV with participation from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund and angel investors. “Most cloud database platforms charge based on availability.

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InfoWorld

JANUARY 31, 2024

San Francisco-based Zilliz has released a new version of its database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering, Zilliz Cloud. Zilliz Cloud is built atop the open source Milvus vector database management system. Zilliz was founded by engineers who had helped develop the Milvus vector database.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Graph databases, which store information in nodes and relationships instead of tables like Excel sheets, have grown in popularity amid an explosion of data across industries. NebulaGraph is one of China’s fastest-growing startups offering graph databases with open source and enterprise subscription options.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

With the popularization of real-time database technologies, stale data and the problems surrounding it might soon become a thing of the past — if vendors’ sales pitches are to be believed. As evidenced by the larger and larger funding tranches, investors believe that there’s a sizeable market for real-time databases.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Enter Airbyte , an early stage startup that is building an open source data integration platform to help solve that problem. The company is providing the open source platform and an SDK to build connectors, and inviting the community to add their own connectors, while building some too. million seed round.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. I’ve also been compiling a list of every donor database I come across at https://socialsourcecommons.org/toolbox/show/1661. Here my perspective.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building process. ” Being open source, of course, is also a big part of MergeStat’s flexibility promise.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In late 2013, Errplane, a Y Combinator-backed startup, began developing an open source project called InfluxDB for database performance monitoring and alerting. Imply , another real-time database vendor, closed a $100 million Series D round in May that values the company at a $1.1 billion post-money.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 16, 2024

Open-source database provider Qdrant has made available Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, a dedicated vector database to be offered in a managed hybrid cloud model. Qdrant, the open-source foundation of both Qdrant Cloud and Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, is a vector similarity search engine and vector database written in Rust.

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