O'Reilly Receives Five Jolt Awards

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O'Reilly Books and Sites Recognized for "Jolting" the Industry
O'Reilly Receives Five Jolt Awards

Sebastopol, CA--For fifteen years, "Software Development" magazine has
presented annual awards to products, books, and web sites that have
"jolted" the industry by helping to create faster, easier, and more
efficient software. On Wednesday, March 16, 2005, the magazine's editors
announced winners of the 15th Annual Software Development Jolt Product
Excellence and Productivity Awards, recognizing O'Reilly Media, Inc. with
top honors in three categories and Productivity Awards in two others.  One
Jolt Award--the top prize--and three Productivity Awards are given in each
of fifteen categories.

In the General Books category, the winner was O'Reilly's "Head First
Design Patterns" by Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, and Kathy
Sierra.  "Better, Faster, Lighter Java" by Bruce A. Tate and Justin
Gehtland received the top prize in the Technical Books category.  The
O'Reilly Network won the award for excellence in the Websites and
Developer Networks category. These three Jolt Award winners were joined by
"Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook" by James Elliott, which received a
Productivity Award in the Technical Books category.

O'Reilly was also recognized, together with Sun Microsystems and
CollabNet, with a Productivity Award in the Websites and Developer
Networks category for Java.net, a collaborative development site.  As
Java.net's feature editor, O'Reilly provides the site's technical content
and news.

Winners of this year's Jolt Awards will be featured in the June 2005 issue
of "Software Development" magazine.  A complete list of winners can be
downloaded from Software Development's site at:
http://www.sdmagazine.com/pressroom/jolt_winners_2005.pdf

More information about O'Reilly's Jolt Award-winning books and sites can
be found at:

"Head First Design Patterns" (O'Reilly, October 2004, US $44.95)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hfdesignpat/index.html

"Better, Faster, Lighter Java" (O'Reilly, June 2004, US $34.95)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bfljava/index.html

"Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook" (O'Reilly, May 2004, US $24.95)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hibernate/index.html

The O'Reilly Network
http://www.oreillynet.com/

Java.net
http://java.net/

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