Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:54:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lisa Mann <lisam@oreilly.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: O'Reilly Titles Sweep Computer Industry Awards

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O'Reilly Titles Sweep Computer Industry Awards


Sebastopol, CA--The Computer Press Association (CPA) has awarded top
honors to "PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide, 2nd Edition", by David Pogue,
and "The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by
an Accidental Revolutionary", by Eric S. Raymond. "The Cathedral & the
Bazaar" was awarded the Computer Press Association's Best Nonfiction
Computer Book, and "PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide, 2nd Edition" won in
the Best Advanced How-To Book category.

With an overwhelming vote, O'Reilly's Java books also claimed the top
four spots on the 2000 Java Developers Journal Readers' Choice Awards:

"Java in a Nutshell" by David Flanagan (Winner: Best Book)
"Java Servlet Programming" by Jason Hunter (1st runner up, Best Book)
"Enterprise JavaBeans" by Richard Monson-Haefel (2nd runner up, Best Book)
"Java 2D Graphics" by Jonathan Knudsen (3rd Runner up, Best Book)

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What the judges of the CPA 2000 Awards said about "PalmPilot: The
Ultimate Guide, 2nd Edition":  "This book earns the title 'ultimate
guide' by its comprehensive approach to the total Palm environment--on
its own, communicating with a Mac or Windows computer, or online. The
extensive information is well organized and based on things you would
want to do with your Palm, rather than on features of the instrument.
Graphics, subheads, and sidebars also help organize the text, and the
conversational style gives it the feel of a tutorial from a
knowledgeable friend."

What the judges of the CPA 2000 Awards said about "The Cathedral & the
Bazaar":  "This book is itself an example of the innovative ideas it
discusses. The printed edition is perhaps only a convenient-to-read
version of the text, which is constantly being revised online. The
author is in constant dialogue with other members of the open source
community and revises his work based on new developments and insights
from others. A fascinating read that provides a philosophical analysis
of the hacker world and the open source movement, and shows how
profoundly they affect the world at-large. Written from an expert
technical viewpoint without excluding the intelligent reader whose
technical roots aren't as deep."


For more information about the CPA 2000 Awards, see:
http://www.computerpress.org

For more information about "The Cathedral & the Bazaar", see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cb/

For more information about "PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide, 2nd Edition", see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/palmpilot2/

For more information on the Java Developer's Journal 2000 Readers'
Choice Awards, see:  http://www.sys-con.com/java/index2.html

For more information on Java in a Nutshell, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javanut3/

For more information on Java Servlet Programming, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jservlet/

For more information on Enterprise JavaBeans, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/entjbeans2/

For more information on Java 2D Graphics, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/java2d/