O'Reilly & Associates





O'Reilly & Associates is an American publishing company, known for its
dedication to computer programming-related books. They achieve distinctive
branding by featuring a woodcut of an animal on many of their covers.

The company not only publishes a number of books but also hosts a conference
and provides online servies for open source community. Among such
conferences are O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (April 22-25, 2003)
in California and O'Reilly Open Source Convention (July 7-11, 2003) in Portland, OR.

O'Reilly has adopted 1790 Copyright Durations, which limits the maximum term
of copyright protection to 28 years; it is quite shorter than one in the
current term in copyright law.

Well-known books published by it include (by alphabetical order):

   * Creating Applications With Mozilla (ISBN 0-596-00052-9)
   * Google Hacks (ISBN 0-596-00447-8)
   * Mastering Regular Expressions (ISBN 0-596-00289-0)
   * Practical PostgreSQL (ISBN 1-56592-846-6)
   * Running Linux (ISBN 0-596-00272-6)
   * Programming Perl (known as camel book)