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

CNN: Doug Gross,

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

ECONOMIST: Novell

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.

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