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by GW Eckrich, 01FEB05 This is the second in a series of articles dicussing the use of open source. The first of these articles can be found here. We continue to look at non-profit organisations and desktop operating systems. Server OS Previously we were discussing the major server... Keeping in mind that a non-profit/small shop has only one server, is Linux a viable operating system (OS)? Big questions: can the job get done using open source? Will the critical application run on open source?1 The donor tracking software mentioned in our previous article has kept up to date[color=blue]2[/blue], meaning that Linux and SQL are supported. Thus, the answer is yes, Linux can do the job.
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