Windows: Having a portable version of Firefox on your thumb drive can be really convenient. Make Firefox, and OpenOffice.org and other apps, more adaptable and web-ready by installing Java ...

No. 1: Java is as fast, or faster, than other programming languages. And No. 2: Java is "portable" -- it is "write-once, run-everywhere" -- in other words, a Java program can be written once and ...

What better language for the cloud, then, than Java? It’s reliable, network-savvy, secure, and perhaps, with a little nudge from VMware and friends, it can actually be as portable as it always ...

As Java’s mantra has been “Write once, run anywhere,” Java is portable with very little effort. C++ is portable in theory, but in practice, you have to build another language (#ifdef’d ...