Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2011

I recently wrote a blog entry about LibreOffice (LO), the fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo) that came after the acquisition of Sun (the old holder/maintainer of OOo) by Oracle. I’ve been using this tool since it actually was StarOffice, more than 10 years ago, when it was first open sourced by Sun in 2000.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Open source has become a major force in the world of IT, and today a startup that has built a profitable operation by developing business management software on the principle is announcing a sizable secondary investment on the back of that growth. What is also notable is how Odoo pitches itself.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

So despite the broader downturn , it seems that 2022 may have been relatively kind to startups operating in the no- and low-code sphere, something that fledgling Northern Irish startup Budibase is capitalizing on with the announcement of a fresh $7 million tranche of funding to further develop an open source web app builder.

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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. Open source projects are now prominent players in middle layer.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

For Microsoft, Oracle, Perplexity, Snap and hundreds of other leading companies, using the NVIDIA AI inference platform a full stack comprising world-class silicon, systems and software is the key to delivering high-throughput and low-latency inference and enabling great user experiences while lowering cost.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When you first open a Payhawk account, you get a dedicated IBAN and you can upload money from your existing bank account. Payhawk plans to launch new features, such as Oracle Netsuite integration, subscription management and budgets. Up next, the company plans to open offices in Amsterdam, Paris and New York.

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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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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

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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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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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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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, versions of MySQL Clients, Tools, and Connectors are also live, and Oracle recommends that they be used with MySQL Server 8.0,

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

What it does: Oracle for Web 2.0 The pitch: Clique is a privacy-preserving identity oracle for Web 2.0 What it does: Decentralized lending platform without oracles. Ajna aims to let people lend digital assets immediately without oracles, governance or gatekeepers in a permissionless market. Company name: Clique.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric of large- and medium-size companies going back decades. Dev Ittycheria, MongoDB CEO, rings the Nasdaq Stock Market Opening Bell. Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Colorado houses existing tech giants such as IBM, Oracle and Lockheed Martin, as well as an emerging and thriving startup scene. With a vibrant and rapidly-growing tech ecosystem, there are a number of reasons why Denver should be on your radar for 2014: A strong, constantly evolving tech environment. percent.

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The Next Web

MAY 12, 2013

Comparing the advances of Xeround with what was available at the time, when the Clusters models of Oracle and Microsoft were not as stable as they are today, it looked like Xeround really had a qualitative advantage over its powerhouse competitors. Sales cycles were long and unpredictable.

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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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AFP Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Foundation opens volunteerism Web site to nonprofits - Harwich, MA - Harwich Oracle: "Cape Cod —Cape Cod Volunteers, a Web site-based service that will link nonprofit agencies with potential volunteers, is open to nonprofits to post their volunteer opportunities.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

When his previous startup, Werker was sold to Oracle in 2017, Hernandez van Leuffen became part of a much larger company where he saw people struggling to deal with outages (which happen at every company). The round was co-led by Crane Venture Partners and Notion Capital with participation from Northzone, System.One and Basecase Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

“In HR tech and SaaS space, we are now only behind SAP and Oracle in India in terms of revenue,” he said. The startup is also open to exploring opportunities to acquire smaller firms for inorganic growth, he said. “We will be leveraging the power of our platform to do a lot more.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Zenity argues that as employees start building their own applications and adopt tools like robotic process automation (RPA), this new class of applications also opens up new avenues for potential breaches and ransomware attacks.

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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 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

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

That’s why Satyen Sangani, a former Oracle VP, co-founded Redwood City–based Alation , a startup that helps crawl a company’s databases in order to build data search catalogs. And if a recent poll by Oracle is to be believed, 95% of people say they’re overwhelmed by the amount of data available to them in the workplace.

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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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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

MARCH 8, 2023

Consensus’ current customers span 15 of the 30 largest software companies, including Coupa, Oracle and Autodesk. “This forcing function from the pandemic caused the entire sales industry to sit up and question the status quo, which has been helpful to opening minds to the usefulness of demo automation as part of the process.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Nvidia announced it will buy Arm and Oracle is reportedly not buying TikTok but becoming a “trusted tech partner.”. Oracle reportedly wins deal for TikTok’s US operations as ‘trusted tech partner’. Apple News. ? What to expect from Apple’s ‘Time Flies’ event: Apple Watch Series 6, a redesigned iPad Air, and more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Sunday supports Oracle Micros, Brinks, Tiller, Zelty, Revo, CashPad, etc. It also opens up some new possibilities. When restaurants are going to be open again, you may notice Sunday QR codes in France at Eataly, PNY, Paris Society, Eric Frechon, Groupe Bertrand’s restaurants (Burger King France, Hippopotamus, Groupe Flo…).

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Nagaraj Nadendla is SVP of development at Oracle Cloud HCM , where he leads the development of cloud recruitment solutions including Oracle Recruiting and Taleo. job openings have risen to an all-time high of 10.1 Recruiters have proven to be open to innovation where it helps them find these new candidates. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Procore, a construction tech unicorn, went public in 2021 , and Aconex, an Australia-based construction platform, was acquired by Oracle for $1.2 The startup will open an office in Japan in February, Park added. There are lots of other construction marketplaces on the scene. billion in 2017.

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