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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