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O'Reilly Media, the Glossary

Index O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 49 relations: Alpha Books, AOL, BEA Systems, Book, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cease and desist, Cisco Press, CollabNet, Copyright, Copyright Act of 1790, Craft (American magazine), Creative Commons, Dale Dougherty, Darcy DiNucci, Dot-com bubble, E-government, Educational technology, Foo Camp, Freeware, FT Press, Global Network Navigator, Ingram Content Group, Make (magazine), Maker Faire, Microsoft Press, MySQL AB, O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Open Source Summit, Oracle Corporation, Packt, Peachpit, Pearson Education, Perl, Prentice Hall, Publishing, Ruby Central, Sams Publishing, San Mateo, California, Sebastopol, California, Sun Microsystems, Technical writing, Tim O'Reilly, Unix, Video, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Summit, Web portal, Woodcut, Xlib.

  2. Computer book publishing companies
  3. Publishing companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
  4. Publishing companies established in 1978

Alpha Books

Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Random House, is an American publisher best known for its Complete Idiot's Guides series.

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AOL

AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.

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BEA Systems

BEA Systems, Inc. was a company that specialized in enterprise infrastructure software products, which was wholly acquired by Oracle Corporation on April 29, 2008.

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Book

A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Cease and desist

A cease and desist letter is a document sent by one party, often a business, to warn another party that they believe the other party is committing an unlawful act, such as copyright infringement, and that they will take legal action if the other party continues the alleged unlawful activity.

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Cisco Press

Cisco Press is a publishing alliance between Cisco Systems and Pearson, the world's largest education publishing and technology company which is part of Pearson PLC, the global publisher and co-owner (47%) of Penguin Group and formerly Financial Times.

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CollabNet

CollabNet VersionOne is a software firm headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, United States.

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A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.

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The Copyright Act of 1790 was the first federal copyright act to be instituted in the United States, though most of the states had passed various legislation securing copyrights in the years immediately following the Revolutionary War.

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Craft (American magazine)

Craft: (or CRAFT) was a quarterly magazine published by O'Reilly Media which focused on do it yourself (DIY) projects involving knitting, sewing, jewelry, metalworking, woodworking, and other disciplines.

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Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.

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Dale Dougherty

Dale Dougherty (born 1956) is a co-founder of O'Reilly Media, along with Tim O'Reilly.

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Darcy DiNucci

Darcy DiNucci is an author, web designer and expert in user experience.

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Dot-com bubble

The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000.

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E-government

E-government (short for electronic government) is the use of technological communications devices, such as computers and the Internet, to provide public services to citizens and other persons in a country or region.

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Educational technology

Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning.

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Foo Camp

Foo Camp is an annual hacker event hosted by publisher O'Reilly Media.

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Freeware

Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user.

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FT Press

Financial Times Press in the United States and Financial Times Publishing in the United Kingdom are the book publishing imprints related to the Financial Times newspaper.

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Global Network Navigator

The Global Network Navigator (GNN) was the first commercial web publication and the first web site to offer clickable advertisements.

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Ingram Content Group

Ingram Content Group is an American service provider to the book publishing industry, based in La Vergne, Tennessee.

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Make (magazine)

Make (stylized as Make: or MAKE) is an American magazine published since February 2005 which focuses on Do It Yourself (DIY) and/or Do It With Others (DIWO) projects involving computers, electronics, metalworking, robotics, woodworking and other disciplines.

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Maker Faire

Maker Faire is a convention of do it yourself (DIY) enthusiasts established by Make magazine in 2006.

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Microsoft Press

Microsoft Press is the publishing arm of Microsoft, usually releasing books dealing with various current Microsoft technologies. O'Reilly Media and Microsoft Press are computer book publishing companies.

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MySQL AB

MySQL AB was a Swedish software company founded in 1995.

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O'Reilly Open Source Convention

The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) was an American annual convention for the discussion of free and open-source software.

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Open Source Summit

Open Source Summit (formerly LinuxCon) is a name for a series of annual conventions organized each year since 2009 by the Linux Foundation.

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Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas.

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Packt

Packt is a publishing company founded in 2003 and headquartered in Birmingham, UK, with offices in Mumbai, India. O'Reilly Media and Packt are computer book publishing companies.

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Peachpit

Peachpit is a publisher of books focused on graphic design, web design, and development. O'Reilly Media and Peachpit are publishing companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Pearson Education

Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc. O'Reilly Media and Pearson Education are computer book publishing companies.

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Perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.

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Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall was a major American educational publisher. O'Reilly Media and Prentice Hall are computer book publishing companies.

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Publishing

Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software, and other content available to the public for sale or for free.

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Ruby Central

Ruby Central, Inc., is a non-profit organization based in the United States, dedicated to support and advocacy for the Ruby programming language.

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Sams Publishing

Sams Publishing (originally Howard W. Sams & Co.) is an imprint for technical training manuals owned by the global education company Pearson plc. O'Reilly Media and Sams Publishing are computer book publishing companies.

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San Mateo, California

Saint Matthew is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula.

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Sebastopol, California

Sebastopol is a city in Sonoma County, in California with a recorded population of 7,521, per the 2020 U.S. Census.

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Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors.

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Technical writing

Technical writing is a specialized form of communication used by many of today's industrial and scientific organizations to clearly and accurately convey complex information to a user.

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Tim O'Reilly

Timothy O'Reilly (born 6 June 1954) is an Irish-American author and publisher, who is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates).

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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Video

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.

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Web 2.0

Web 2.0 (also known as participative (or participatory) web and social web) refers to websites that emphasize user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture, and interoperability (i.e., compatibility with other products, systems, and devices) for end users.

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Web 2.0 Summit

The Web 2.0 Summit (originally known as the Web 2.0 Conference) was an annual event, held in San Francisco, California from 2004 to 2011, that featured discussions about the World Wide Web.

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Web portal

A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way.

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Woodcut

Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking.

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Xlib

Xlib (also known as libX11) is an X Window System protocol client library written in the C programming language.

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See also

Computer book publishing companies

Publishing companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area

Publishing companies established in 1978

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Reilly_Media

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