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Case Study: Moving to Google Apps

NTEN

At this point, the servers were aging and needed to be replaced, and we needed new software and user licenses (MS Exchange Server), as well. My choice was to take on a migration to Google Apps. I made a SWOT analysis between an in-house server solution and Google Apps. I estimated a long term budget for both solutions.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary. Who won?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There is no way that the kind of inexpensive cloud architecture could have developed if everyone had to have depended on proprietary, licensed software. The cost required to either pay software makers, or recreate everything needed from scratch would have made something like the cloud, or a Google, so expensive as to be impossible.

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It wasn’t too many years ago when our pharmaceutical industry more or less argued that people with AIDS in Africa should die rather than to license their medicines for low cost manufacture. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy! But, allow the benefits of technology to reach far beyond the top of the pyramid.

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"Google Was Our First Office": Managing a Worldwide Staff

NTEN

"Google was our first office", Simi explains. They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine. PT started using Salesforce.com in 2008, taking advantage of its free licenses for nonprofits. It was not used efficiently at the beginning.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Compare that to Google Book Search, with more than 25,000 publishers signed up for their commercial program in a similar time period. Google, who has been sued by the same publishers for alleged copyright violations. We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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What is the Best Content Management System For an Association Website?

The MatrixFiles

I guess this is why some people prefer the Apple design style, while others like Google. While we find that implementation costs are largely similar between systems (because the implementation work is quite similar between systems), licensing and hosting costs can vary widely between systems. Budget is often a consideration.

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What is the Best Content Management System For an Association Website?

The MatrixFiles

I guess this is why some people prefer the Apple design style, while others like Google. While we find that implementation costs are largely similar between systems (because the implementation work is quite similar between systems), licensing and hosting costs can vary widely between systems. Budget is often a consideration.

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