By renting out cloud-based computers by the hour, companies could run any OS, software or programming language on a powerful virtual machine.

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Employees can learn high-demand skills like the Python programming language, software testing, statistics and web development from anywhere in the world, at any time of day.

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Java is a programming language that enables software to run on many operating systems.

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The programming language and its associated software libraries are designed to allow software developers to write programs that can run on otherwise incompatible computers with little modification.

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If you liked the trial, you'll love the judge's greatest-hits collection of Microsoft skullduggery: binding its Internet Explorer browser into Windows just to beat out Netscape, bullying Intel into staying out of the software market, polluting Sun Microsystems' Java programming language to diminish the competitive threat it posed to Windows, threatening IBM.

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Matsumoto-san is not the only programming language creator to take up residence at a software-friendly commercial company.

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Kodu is software that enables kids to design video games using a simple visual programming language.

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One is Java, a programming language that is the underlying technology both for many business applications and for software that runs on mobile phones.

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