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Non-profit organisations are keen to take advantage of emerging technologies such as social networking for fundraising and software as a service for administration, but a lack of perceived support options is keeping them away from open source software and focused on traditional providers such as Microsoft.
Stanford University scientists have shown that distributed computing, using thousands of low- end PCs, can have real results.
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