O'Reilly Media

The O'Reilly is the German branch of the international computer book publisher O'Reilly Media. In the parlance, however, did not differ between the U.S. headquarters and the German branch.

The publisher is in the IT industry is a household name: He is known for detailed technical presentations at numerous practical IT issues. There are compact reference books, which are limited to the essential options and parameters of certain software on numerous topics. These works are called in the international as well as in the German editions in a nutshell. An even more compact form have the books of the series Pocket Reference, whose German -language editions are referred to as short & sweet.

History

In 1978, Tim O'Reilly the publisher in the United States. O'Reilly had previously been a consulting firm, who wrote technical manuals for companies. To compensate for the fluctuating order situation, the available material was recycles of the employees in the " In-a - nutshell" manuals.

" In a nutshell" (literally " in a nutshell " ) is from the Latin -derived academic term ( in a nutshell ) and means something like " in a nutshell, in short, short and sweet ", so is a particularly compact and compressed form of the representation. However, the nutshell series should not be confused with the books of the short -and- well - series (English: Pocket Reference ).

Meanwhile, O'Reilly is a fixture in the computer publishing industry: On the ranking of the computer book publishers, he is in the U.S. at number 4, it is one of the last privately owned publishers.

Milestones

As one of the biggest milestones of the title The Whole Internet by Ed Krol in 1992 is considered. The book has sold more than a million times over the years and been translated into nearly 20 languages.

The Global Network Navigator ( GNN ) was the summer of 1993, the first online magazine: From the title The Whole Internet's first online activity of O'Reilly was born.

In 1994, the publishing house its German branch. The German branch not only published translations, but also German original title, some of which were then translated into English.

In the summer of 1997, the first Perl Conference ( TPF ) was held in San José. The reason was that O'Reilly for years, the employer of the inventor of the programming language Perl, Larry Wall was. Since then, O'Reilly organizes an annual comprehensive open - source conference ( OSCON ), which includes with TPF.

Attracted international attention in O'Reilly Media in 2004 with the term Web 2.0 as the title of a conference series, which this word was significantly influenced in language use.

The owner Tim O'Reilly is therefore a known quantity in the open source environment. He is also a dedicated opponent of software patents. In addition, O'Reilly is the first internationally well-known publishing house, which presented some books as OpenBook under the free GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL).

Trademarks

In all the books of traditional O'Reilly book series emblazoned on the cover of a hand drawing of an animal: In Perl books a camel, the Java book, for example, is adorned with the applicable extinct Java tiger. The idea stemmed from Edie Freedman, who initially used old engravings of animals, but later evaded, given the flood of titles on hand drawings.

In O'Reilly is even a book on the cover animals available ( O'Reilly's animal life. Nutshell. ISBN 3-89721 -220- X), in many books is a colophon of the animals included. O'Reilly can be protected as a trade mark, the representation of animals in connection with the subject matter; it is about the Perl camel a registered trademark.

One of the early exceptions on which no animal is depicted, is emoticons. Short & Sweet, whose title page is decorated with smileys. Various recent O'Reilly book series like hacks or the German original series Basics use a different layout with different title and artwork.

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The O'Reilly offers since 2010 in an irregularly appearing Podcast with Tim Pritlove insights into the books and authors of the publisher. In this mainly on the topics of the books are in the foreground and are discussed in interviews with the authors.