O’Reilly online learning is one of the largest and most successful online learning platforms.

The publishers at this platform can be found below,

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O’Reilly Media

O’Reilly online learning(Safari Books Online), is one of the largest and most successful learning solutions for technical and business topics available on the internet.

O’Reilly Media is best known for its color-coded “Animal Books”.

O’Reilly’s mission is to change the world by sharing the knowledge of innovators. For over 40 years, we’ve inspired companies and individuals to do new things—and do things better—by providing them with the skills and understanding that’s necessary for success.

At the heart of our business is a unique network of experts and innovators who share their knowledge through us. O’Reilly online learning offers exclusive live training, interactive learning, a certification experience, books, videos, and more, making it easier for our customers to develop the expertise they need to get ahead. And our books have been heralded for decades as the definitive place to learn about the technologies that are shaping the future. Everything we do is to help professionals from a variety of fields learn best practices and discover emerging trends that will shape the future of the tech industry.

History

Begun as a technical writing consulting firm, O’Reilly started publishing books about programming and computer technology in 1984. These books, known for the woodcuts of animals on the cover, became such a pervasive feature of the internet revolution that when, in 2000, the cover of Publisher’s Weekly declared, “The Internet Was Built with O’Reilly Books,” no one could take exception to the claim. In 1992, O’Reilly published the first popular book about the internet, Ed Krol’s groundbreaking Whole Internet User’s Guide and Catalog, which helped to popularize the World Wide Web when there were fewer than 200 websites. O’Reilly went on to create the first commercial web portal in 1993, the Global Network Navigator (GNN). GNN was the first site on the World Wide Web to support advertising. GNN was sold to AOL in 1995, one of the first big transactions of the dot-com boom.

O’Reilly was long recognized for the conferences and summits it organized. In 1997, the firm launched the Perl Conference to raise the profile of the Perl programming language. Then, in 1998, realizing the need to tell a broader story about the role of free software in the internet economy, O’Reilly invited notable leaders of various free software projects to a meeting. At this gathering, the group formally agreed on a new term to tell their combined story—“open source software”—so the meeting became known as the Open Source Summit. The O’Reilly Open Source Convention, also known as OSCON (and which included the Perl Conference), was one of O’Reilly’s flagship events.

In 2003, after the dot-com bust, O’Reilly’s corporate goal was to reignite enthusiasm in the computer industry. Dale Dougherty, an executive at O’Reilly, coined the phrase “Web 2.0” during a brainstorming session. This then became the name for the influential Web 2.0 Summit run by O’Reilly and TechWeb (formerly CMP Media). Web 2.0 framed what distinguished the companies that survived the dot-com bust from those that died, and identified key drivers of future success, including what’s now called “cloud computing,” big data, and new approaches to iterative, data-driven software development.

The most recent events hosted by O’Reilly included the Strata Data Conference, the AI Conference, the Velocity Conference, the Software Architecture Conference, and the invitation-only Foo Camp (a “Friends of O’Reilly” unconference). In 2016, the company produced 19 conferences across the US, Europe, and Asia. In early 2020, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused a shutdown of in-person conferences all around the world, and O’Reilly made the difficult decision to close down the conference portion of the business. (The Foo Camp series is expected to continue.) O’Reilly founder Tim O’Reilly continues to be a highly sought-after international speaker, giving keynotes on technology and culture and interviewing some of the world’s top technology leaders.

In 2004, the company named the “Maker movement” with the launch of Make: magazine, and in 2005, Maker Faire. As recently as 2019, the flagship Maker Faire in San Mateo, California, drew over 130,000 attendees, and other Maker Faires around the world have collectively drawn millions. In 2012, O’Reilly spun out the Make: properties into a separate venture-backed company, Maker Media, headed up by former O’Reilly executive and Make: founder Dale Dougherty.

In 2001, O’Reilly launched Safari Books Online, a subscription-based service providing access to ebooks as a joint venture with the Pearson Technology Group. In 2014, O’Reilly acquired Pearson’s interest in the joint venture, rebranding it O’Reilly online learning, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of O’Reilly Media, based in Sebastopol, California. The largest and most successful learning solution for technical and business topics available on the internet, O’Reilly online learning has millions of users through B2B, consumer, government, and library channels. Customers include Silicon Valley companies like Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Tesla as well as giants in industrial, banking, and other sectors.

The firm is headquartered in Sebastopol, California, with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Farnham, UK; Tokyo, Japan; and Beijing, China.

Packt

Packt has great content for any technical professional looking to stay relevant and keep their skills up-to-date.

Packt helps real-world developers put software to work in new ways with over 7,500 practical books and videos covering over 1,000 technologies. With coverage ranging from introductory programming to new and emerging technologies, as well as expert advice from industry-leading figures.

History

Founded in 2004 in Birmingham, UK, Packt’s mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. Working towards that vision, we have published over 6,500 books and videos so far, providing IT professionals with the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done – whether that’s specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools. As part of our mission, we have also awarded over $1,000,000 through our Open Source Project Royalty scheme, helping numerous projects become household names along the way.

Peason

Pearson Publishing is an established educational publisher, software developer, and provider of training systems. Specialising in mobile learning, it helps raise achievement, improve staff performance and reduce costs.

For Dummies

Dummies is the world’s bestselling reference brand, with more than 1,600 titles. Dummies aims to help customers solve problems and get up to speed on topics that seem difficult or intimidating. Dummies books cover a rull range of technical and general interest topics from computers, business, investment, marketing, careers, and sales to cooking, health, history, home improvement, language, and travel.

Dummies has always stood for taking on complex concepts and making them easy to understand. Dummies helps everyone be more knowledgeable and confident in applying what they know. Whether it’s to pass that big test, qualify for that big promotion or even master that cooking technique; people who rely on dummies, rely on it to learn the critical skills and relevant information necessary for success.