O'Reilly

O'Reilly Media is an American company founded by Tim O'Reilly in 1978 that is an active member in the technology community. They have achieved distinctive branding by featuring a woodcut of an animal on many of their book covers and are considered by many technologists to be an authority on the genre. In addition to publishing books, O'Reilly also spreads the knowledge of innovators through its online services, magazines and conferences (the next [|O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference] will be held in March). O'Reilly describes its business not as publishing or conferences, but as "changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators." The company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism in the technology community and was the creator of the first commercial website (GNN) and organizer of the summit meeting that gave the open source software movement its name (Web 2.0).

In their own words: "...everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation."

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