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Company name: Sahana
Founded: January 2005
Location: A community-driven project hosted on SourceForge.net and sponsored by the Lanka Software Foundation, a Sri Lanka-based nonprofit committed to promoting open source software development.
What does the company offer? A secure Web portal that includes applications used to coordinate and collaborate during relief efforts following disasters.
Why is it worth watching? The Sahana Project illustrates the humanitarian benefit of open source; it can be useful to large organizations dealing with the aftermath of disasters.
How did the company get its start? The project was launched following the Asian tsunami to create a flexible, customizable framework of pluggable applications free from the licensing worries of commercial software.
How did the company get its name? Sahana means "relief" in the Sri Lankan native tongue.
Who's using the product? Used by the government in Sri Lanka during the Asian tsunami and the government in Pakistan during the 2005 earthquake. Sarvodaya, a charity organization in Sri Lanka, is predeploying Sahana to manage its disaster response.
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Open source companies to watchBy Anonymous on April 16, 2007, 4:28 amA bit old but really useful article.Thanks for the effort. Shiju V.Joseph Network Engineer Automation Experts,Mumbai
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ZipTieBy ksuriamoorthy on June 28, 2007, 3:59 pmAdd one more to the list :-) Check out ZipTie : http://www.ziptie.org/ ZipTie is a multi-vendor, extremely robust, and scalable open source solution for network...
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What about Process-one ?By Erlanger on September 29, 2007, 5:54 amProcess-one is growing fastly and from what they told me they have an impressive list of customer references. See: http://www.process-one.net/
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