Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 14, 2011

For those of us that depend on MySQL everyday, the buyout of Sun (which had bought MySQL) by Oracle did not bode well. A decidedly biased survey by the folks behind PostgreSQL suggests that many people worry about the health of MySQL in Oracle’s hands. Switch to PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is a different beast entirely.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Oracle , a decade-long war over the future of software, neared its end in the Supreme Court this week as a battle of metaphors. Oracle covers a complex question : what elements of computer code can be copyrighted, and if that code is covered by copyright, when it’s still legal to use pieces of it under fair use. Alex Castro.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! Open has 3 components, APIs, Database Connectors, and Extensions. Bottom line: Kintera takes some important steps to open up their application. You make your own conclusions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Oracle’s done deal : Oracle quietly wrapped up its acquisition of Cerner, which goes into effect Wednesday. Electronic health records is big business, and while this merger gives Oracle a major seat at the table, it is not yet known how these companies will mesh or whether Cerner will be lucrative for Oracle.

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TechNode

JANUARY 29, 2025

Consistent with previous models in the Janus series, Janus-Pro is open-source. Following the China-based company’s announcement that its DeepSeek-V3 model topped the scoreboard for open-source models, tech companies like Nvidia and Oracle saw sharp declines on Monday. Tencent , in Chinese]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Salto , a Tel Aviv-based open-source startup that allows you to configure SaaS platforms like Salesforce, NetSuite and HubSpot with code, is coming out of stealth today and announced that it has raised a $27 million Series A round. Salto makes the core of its service available as open source. ” Image Credits: Salto.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. DeepSeeks breakthroughs caused some angst, but its fresh thinking and openness will likely spur bigger and faster innovations from the worlds top AI companies by this time next year. People downloaded variants of the open-source Phi-3 more than 4.5

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The Takipi post provided a good example of this from three similar articles on TechCrunch, where these two headlines were extremely popular: Oracle makes more moves to kill open source mySQL and Oracle is bleeding at the hands of DataBase rivals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

However, SeMI’s goal is to commoditize this technology and has an open source business model so that anyone can use it. and European talent and doubling down on its open source community for both Weaviate and vector search in general. SeMI intends to deploy the new funding into hiring U.S.

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Oracle has introduced Graal Cloud Native 4.2.1, a curated, Oracle-supported build of the open source Micronaut framework, which provides a full-stack JVM platform for developing modular microservices and serverless applications. Graal Cloud Native 4.2.1 was unveiled January 30.

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InfoWorld

JULY 4, 2024

Oracle celebrated the beginning of July with the general availability of three releases of its open source database, MySQL: MySQL 8.0.38, the first update of its long-term support (LTS) version, MySQL 8.4, and the first major version of its 9.x x innovation release, MySQL 9.0. LTS as well as with 9.0 Innovation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

David is passionate about open-source and infrastructure software and previously worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley. In the old software world — think Oracle and SAP — sales were the competitive advantage. More posts by this contributor. Should your SaaS startup embrace a bottom-up GTM strategy?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

While it has embraced an open source version of CockroachDB along with a 30-day free trial on the company’s cloud service as ways to attract new customers to the top of the funnel, it wants to try a new approach. As that happened, the company began a shift in thinking.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

But when Thomas Kurian took on the CEO role in 2019 , he set Google Cloud on a path to build out that expertise and an open partner ecosystem, which is now starting to pay off. “I was very excited because I knew of Thomas’s history and experience and accomplishments at Oracle.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software. The Money In Open-Source Software. “Are you gonna hire a bunch of useless salespeople like they have at Oracle?” The territory we covered that day included: Was I open to unorthodox thinking? More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Alex: 2022 is when open source will become the de facto startup model. What hit me this year, especially toward the latter half, was just how frequently I ran into bright folks building businesses that had an open source component. We all know that open source isn’t new as a business concept.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

ForgeRock was founded in 2010, but its roots go back even further to an open-source single sign-on project known as OpenSSO that was created by Sun Microsystems in 2005.

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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. It may come as a surprise, but there are still billions of dollars in Oracle instances still powering critical apps today, and they likely aren’t going anywhere. Ethan Batraski. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Still, it’s one that is supported by Open Source, adopted by large nonprofit-serving businesses such as Oracle/NetSuite and Unit4, and creating an opening (and teaching tool) for even new-to-nonprofit technology solutions to understand basic service needs for nonprofits as supported by data.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

MySQL, which remains one of the most popular database engines in the world, was first released in the mid-1990s, and Oracle Database, launched more than four decades ago, is still widely used in high-performance corporate environments. Database technology can change the world, but the world in these parts changes very, very slowly.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Union.ai , a startup emerging from stealth with a commercial version of the open source AI orchestration platform Flyte, today announced that it raised $10 million in a round contributed by NEA and “select” angel investors. We need to bridge both these worlds in a structured and repeatable way.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Image Credits: Aramyan (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: Klaus Vedfelt (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: wildpixel (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Senior Editor, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist. Sales team health.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ahmed became acquainted with Swanson while working at Swanson’s last startup, DataScience.com, which was acquired by Oracle in 2017. Ahmed and Swanson worked together at Oracle as well, where Swanson was the VP of AI and machine learning. Swanson suggests internal-use authentication tokens and other credentials, for one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The buzz has been going full blast about Google's Open Social API, from TechCrunch to ZDNET. The nonprofit technology community is aksing: " What will Google Open Social mean for nonprofits? What is Openness? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director? Open standards help long term.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Ants and camels are famously resilient, but when it was time to select a name for a startup that offers open-source, cloud-based distributed database architecture, you can imagine why “Cockroach Labs” was the final candidate. Image Credits: z_wei (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Thanks very much for reading!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Should Oracle or Alphabet buy VMWare instead of Broadcom? In 2022, Alex predicted that open source would become the de facto startup model. Miranda Halpern (me, hello, hi) felt that this acquisition followed a logical progression for Amazon since it entered the healthcare space in 2018.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

And it lets users hot-swap new sources on the fly. How People Are Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation With retrieval-augmented generation, users can essentially have conversations with data repositories, opening up new kinds of experiences. This means the applications for RAG could be multiple times the number of available datasets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

“But these systems have many facets … Open-source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL are getting better each year, but more features means deployment challenges. “This was … right around the time powerful machine learning technologies became more accessible with open source frameworks and hardware acceleration.

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Gyrus

MARCH 4, 2024

Types of LMS (Learning Management Systems) There are three main types: Cloud-based LMS, Open-source LMS, and Proprietary LMS. Cons Limitations related to customization – when compared to open-source or proprietary alternatives. The inherent benefits of an LMS redefine how we approach learning and training.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s their experiences with CFOs that led Heller and Boldo to co-found Trullion , an accounting software platform that connects corporate controllers, CFOs and external auditors on a single platform, offering a unified source of truth for financial leaders — if the sales pitch is to be believed, at least.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

He points to the platform’s recently launched Kos, an open source metadata model and integration toolkit that’s designed to make it easier to model data consistently. Google, IBM, and Oracle), Data.World has rivals in startups like Stemma , which raised $4.8 ” Beyond the usual suspects (e.g.,

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Gyrus

MARCH 4, 2024

Types of LMS (Learning Management Systems) There are three main types: Cloud-based LMS, Open-source LMS, and Proprietary LMS. Cons Limitations related to customization – when compared to open-source or proprietary alternatives. The inherent benefits of an LMS redefine how we approach learning and training.

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Gyrus

MARCH 4, 2024

Types of LMS (Learning Management Systems) There are three main types: Cloud-based LMS, Open-source LMS, and Proprietary LMS. Cons Limitations related to customization – when compared to open-source or proprietary alternatives. The inherent benefits of an LMS redefine how we approach learning and training.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

The event kicked off with opening remarks by Joan Garry , an industry veteran and champion for the nonprofit sector, which led directly into the first panel discussion on the topic of climate. . From Climate Change to Navigating the Unexpected. Data Lake for Nonprofit Cloud , Powered by Amazon Web Services was also announced.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

MIT Technology Review recently cited Oracle’s definition : “Big data is the derivation of value from traditional relational database-driven business decision making, augmented with new sources of unstructured data. The field of open data is all about their sharing it out to the rest of us. What Is Big Data Anyway?

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Austin, Texas: Oracle | NetSuite For Nonprofits. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels & Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. How to Broadcast Your Events to the World for Free. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Friday, May 19, 2017.

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