O'Reilly Media

Corporate Overview

Year Founded: 1978
Founder & CEO: Tim O'Reilly
Employees:270
Headquarters: Sebastopol, CA; additional offices in Cambridge, MA; Farnham, UK; Koeln, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; Taipei, Taiwan; Beijing, China
Funding: Privately held

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

Publisher of the iconic "animal books" for software developers, creator of the first commercial website (GNN), organizer of the summit meeting that gave the open source software movement its name, and prime instigator of the DIY revolution through its Make magazine, O'Reilly continues to concoct new ways to connect people with the information they need. O'Reilly conferences and summits bring alpha geeks and forward-thinking business leaders together to shape the revolutionary ideas that spark new industries. Long the information source of choice for technologists, the company now also delivers the knowledge of expert early adopters to everyday computer users. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation.

What Others Say

"O'Reilly's Radar is legendary."
—Wired

"O'Reilly has built a multimillion-dollar business on a series of wish-I'd-thought-of-that ideas."
—Business 2.0

"The O'Reilly conferences are the gold standard for drawing together a critical mass of thought leaders."
—CRN

"An O'Reilly book brands a topic as something useful, with a future, worth knowing about."
—Irish Times

"Tim is one of those rare businesspeople who not only takes the longest and broadest possible view but acts constantly on Yogi Berra's most impossible advice: 'When you see a fork in the road, take it.' Looking back, Tim seems to have taken every fork along the road and sometimes several at once. Yet, there also seems to be something consistently broad and encompassing about every one of those decisions."
—Linux Journal

Major Products Publishing

O'Reilly publishes definitive books on computer technologies for developers, administrators, and users. Bestselling series include the legendary "animal books," In a Nutshell, Missing Manuals, Hacks, and Head First. Highlights of the publishing program include:

Open Source: Intellectual Property and Open Source, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Building Embedded Linux Systems, Getting Started with Arduino

Programming Languages: Head First Java, Programming C#, Programming Perl, Programming Python, Programming PHP

Web: Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide, The Art of Capacity Planning, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Facebook Cookbook, MediaWiki

Security: Web Security Testing Cookbook, iPhone Forensics

Software Development: The Art of Agile Development, Head First Software Development, Beautiful Code, Algorithms in a Nutshell

Digital Media: Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure, Take Your Best Shot, Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One

Consumer applications: slide:ology, iPhone: The Missing Manual, Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Windows Vista: The Missing Manual, iPod: The Missing Manual

MAKE and CRAFT magazines, celebrating Do-It-Yourself (DIY) innovation and creativity.