Non-profits use open source software
Howard Lake | 1 September 2002 | News
Open source software is low-cost and often runs well on slightly older computer hardware. No wonder non-profit organisations are taking an interest in it.
Writing in Newsforge, the online newspaper on Linux and open source software, Grant Gross says that open source software and non-profits are a match made in heaven. One intranet software company told him “There’s probably more interest [in open source software] from non-profits than any other vertical we target.”
The reasons for this interest include better products from Linux vendors, the use of Linux by more for-profit companies, and of course licensing changes at Microsoft and the cost of buying and running commercial software.
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Open Source tools for Web design and hosting are particularly popular with non-profits. Software in use includes Linux servers, Apache, PHP and MySQL.
Read Open Source and non-profits: A match made in heaven by Grant Gross at Newsforge.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.