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Sun sheds light on its open-source future

Insight Simon Phipps, Sun UK's chief open-source officer, surveys the open-source landscape and reaffirms his company's commitment to open software development.

Wednesday, April 30 2008 10:43 AM

Tags: Open source, Java, Security, Google Inc., Ubuntu, Sun Microsystems Inc., software, system administrator, database administrator, strategy


China chooses FreeBSD as basis for secure OS

Techguide What OS would one choose as a basis for fortified software platforms? China decided to go open source, and it may be pulling ahead of the West in information warfare preparedness.

Monday, June 29 2009 09:14 PM

Tags: Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Network security, Open source, Security, Information Security, operating system, Chad Perrin, China, U.S.



Hands-on programming: Extract plain text from documents with Syncfusion's components

Web Development

Justin James recently tried Syncfusion's Essential DocIO and Essential PDF to help him extract text from documents he downloaded from the Internet. Here's the code he wrote to get the plain text.


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Will technology divide us further?

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So I finally watched 2012 over the weekend, but the film left me feeling extremely agitated.

The possibility that the world may meet its watery end in three years didn't..... by Eileen Yu

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