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Working with PDF files on Linux

Network World

It became an open ISO standard in 2015. Some of the more popular of the FOSS (free and open source) PDF editors include LibreOffice, PDFSam, PDFedit, ONLYOFFICE and Xournal++. Today, you can save documents as PDF files from many applications (e.g., exporting a document as a PDF from Word) and edit PDF files (e.g.,

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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

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The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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IntelliDyne’s ITAC Published Top 10 Tech Trends In 2015 For Government Enterprise Infrastructure Management

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Higher Workload Through Data Virtualization – More apps, open-source software and big data will stream through the networks, which will demand efficient virtualization, workflow automation to handle the increased traffic and ally security concerns.

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2015 CRN Emerging Vendors List

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July 23, Hortonworks announced that they have been named to The Channel Company’s exclusive 2015 CRN Emerging Vendors List. is industry’s only 100 percent open source Apache Hadoop platform that is built in the open by both Hortonworks and the community. Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) version 2.3

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Demise of OpenStack Innovation Center does not mean demise of OpenStack

Forrester IT

But this may not be quite so bad as it appears, because the OpenStack Innovation Center isn't nearly so critical to the open source cloud computing project as its name might imply. The last of these, on 24 July 2015, was concerned with the then-new OpenStack Innovation Center. Read more Categories: Open Source.

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NGA and DigitalGlobe Release Powerful Application To Community Under Open Source License

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January 13, 2015. Sharing the application with the open source community helps accelerate its potential to become the standard for storing, enriching and analyzing massive amounts of raster data in a distributed cloud environment. Analysis Big Data CTO DoD and IC Intelligence Community Open Source Cloud Computing NGA'

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Fed News Roundup 16 July 2015

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Why government needs open source databases - GCN.com GCN (Today) - GCN.comWhy government needs open source databasesGCN.comRecent reports on our economy have been positive, but government agencies are still facing unprecedented financial pressures as a result of the 2008 economic crisis.