Category Archives: Not For Profit/Charity

Simon Phipps from Sun Microsystems explains their Open Source Business Model

Many people ask me how people make money out of Open Source (especially in the enterprise software space). I often give the example of Sun Microsytems who are now a company who base nearly all of their business on Open Source (a big change for them from a few years back. Sun invest a huge [...]

Blog Action Day 15th October 2008

October 15th 2008 is Blog Action Day. I have posted a blog entry for Blog Action day here http://philipoakley.org/?p=140

CiviCRM – Open Source Web Based Management for Non Profits and Associations

The use of the latest web technologies by American politicians is now reasonably common place with sites such as Facebook and the the use of Twitter in the Presidential Campaign http://election.twitter.com/ but probably not so well known was that back in 2004 Howard Dean pioneered political donations on the internet using open source software. The [...]