Why should schools and non-profits use open databases?
Schools and non-profit organizations are the perfect environments for open databases. Typically, these offices are run by one or two people who need to create new reports all the time. They need to be able to track new information as the job changes. Consider these analogies: Schools and non-profit offices would never buy a locked word processing program with a fixed number of letters and forms. Instead, they buy a word processor program and learn to use it. They would never buy a locked spreadsheet system with a library of locked education budget worksheets. They buy, instead, an open spreadsheet and learn to make their own spreadsheets. The same should be true for their databases. In most offices it makes perfect sense to have a database tool that is flexible and can grow with the needs and skills of the users. Open databases are practical only if the software is easy to learn, and flexible yet powerful enough to suit people’s overall needs. These are principles behind all inRESONANC
