OSS

Open source software applications are becoming an increasingly viable alternative to vendor provided commercial software. Jeff Walpole explores the differences between these types of software, and the pros and cons of each alternative in a new article written for Idealware, a 501c3 nonprofit that provides candid Consumer-Reports-style reviews and articles about software of interest to nonprofits. Read and download the full article from the Idealware website.

Have you tried using Google Insights yet to establish a trend in popularity for a particular search term? By allowing you to see the relative volume of searches made over any period of time (which you can define) for any number of search terms you care to compare, you can really do some cool trending analysis.