NewsForge: Open Source and Non-Profits: A Match Made in Heaven
Aug 07, 2002, 03:00 (6 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Grant Gross)
"We've long talked about how government agencies almost owe it
to taxpayers to explore low-cost Open Source alternatives to
Microsoft and other high-cost vendors, but it seems that non-profit
organizations such as churches are also starting to get the Open
Source religion.
"The move toward Open Source among these often cash-strapped
groups may be more the speed of a single conversion at a time
instead of a big-tent revival, but one Intranet software vendor
sees a growing interest in Open Source among its non-profit
clients.
"Scott Testa, COO of Mindbridge Software, says about 30 of the
800 customers of his company's IntraSmart 'instant Intranet'
software are non-profits running it on Linux, and about 10% of the
company's customers overall are running Linux. While the company
still sells more software packages to companies running Windows or
Unix, Testa predicts that Linux could become the second favorite
platform in the next year or two, surpassing Solaris and other
Unixes, and interest from non-profit groups should be a big
reason..."
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