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Safari Books Online Named 2008 Jolt Productivity Award Winner
SEBASTOPOL, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Safari Books Online(R), a leading provider of digital libraries for information technology (IT) professionals and workgroups, today announced that the company was named a 2008 Dr. Dobb's Jolt Product Excellence Awards finalist and Productivity Winner in the Websites/Developer Networks category. The Jolt Awards recognize the most innovative, trend-making and ahead-of-the-curve products that are universally useful and simple yet rich in functionality or solve a nagging problem in their product space.
Safari Books Online was selected as a finalist from hundreds of nominees submitted in 16 different categories. Furthermore, the Jolt Award Winner and every finalist in the Technical Books category is accessible on Safari Books Online. Safari makes the full text of these books and thousands of others available within its digital libraries, and also provides subscribers with access to pre-published book manuscripts on emerging technology topics, short-form documents and instructional videos.
"Being chosen as a Jolt Award finalist is further proof of Safari Books Online's value to developers - increasing productivity, supporting work on deadline-driven projects, and staying informed about emerging technologies," said Jeff Patterson, CEO at Safari Books Online. "Developers are the real innovators in many companies, and a key resource for competitive differentiation. Safari is pleased to be recognized as a top value-added online source of works from the most important technology publishers such as O'Reilly, Prentice-Hall, Addison-Wesley, Microsoft Press, Sams, Que, Peachpit Press, John Wiley & Sons, and others, which are key resources for these developers."
"This year's Jolt finalists, including Safari Books Online, represent the most innovative tools in software development," said Amber Ankerholz, conference manager for Dr. Dobb's Events. "Our judges took an in-depth look at the finalists, examining the standard criteria of audience suitability, productivity, innovation, quality, ROI, risk, and flexibility, but also sought products that were ahead-of-the-curve, universally useful, simple yet rich in functionality."
For the past 17 years, the Dr. Dobb's Jolt Product Excellence Awards have been presented annually to showcase products that have "jolted" the IT industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier and more efficient. Finalists for this year's Jolt Awards program were selected by a panel of judges, comprised of well-respected editors, columnists and industry experts. Jolt Cola, the fabled soft drink quaffed by software developers for sustenance during project development marathons, sponsors the annual awards presentation.
About Dr. Dobb's
Dr. Dobb's is recognized worldwide as the leading resource for the professional software development community. With an award-winning monthly publication (Dr. Dobb's Journal), world-wide technical events and conferences (Dr. Dobb's Events) and one of the web's most comprehensive sites (Dr. Dobb's Portal), Dr. Dobb's attracts the industry's most authoritative audience of professional developers, architects and managers and provides marketing partners highly actionable integrated marketing solutions to reach the software development buying team.
About CMP
CMP is a media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. With the leading online, event and print brands in all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reach beyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technology industry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such as TechWeb, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times and TechOnline; produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developers Conference and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and provides business information and marketing services such as the International Customer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights and Second Life consulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. For more CMP news, go to cmp.com/news.
About Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online, founded in 2001 as a joint venture of pre-eminent technology publishers O'Reilly Media Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, is the leading on-demand reference and learning platform delivering expert content from the world's thought-leaders in business and technology innovation. Safari offers the combined collections of O'Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Peachpit Press, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Sun Microsystems Press, Wharton School Publishing, Microsoft Press, John Wiley & Sons, lynda.com and many more top publishers in one fully searchable database. IT professionals, software developers, web designers, and business and creative professionals use Safari as their primary resource for research, problem solving, learning and certification training. Thousands of books, manuscripts, short topics, articles and instructional video are available from expert authors, innovators and thought leaders. Safari as an essential, always-on business tool is fast changing the way corporate, academic and training organizations access information and enables increasingly mobile workforces to get technical and business reference resources anytime and from anywhere. Safari offers a range of B2B product mixes and pricing programs for every sized organization and a B2C product option for individual users.
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