Security holes in Oracle's Java programming language have been responsible for a number of the recent attacks.

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Mr Schmidt, who at Sun was involved in the creation of Java, the Internet's programming language of choice, has impeccable geek credentials.

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Like fixing any jumble, software gets organized by putting like things in boxes--a process called "abstraction"--and it flourished in the coming years through techniques like object-oriented programming, which shapes the Internet's Java language.

FORBES: The Biggest Damn Opportunity

The idea, says Buell Duncan III , IBM's general manager for ISV and developer relations, is to create a network of companies large and small, which are conversant in both nonproprietary, or open, computing standards, like the Linux operating system or the Java programming language, and IBM's suite of hardware, middleware and services.

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Some cable firms will succumb to Microsoft's pitch, but most prefer an open standard, possibly based on the Java programming language developed by Sun Microsystems.

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