Publisher Profiles

Apress, Inc.
2560 Ninth Street
Suite 219
Berkeley, CA 94710, USA
Tel: 510-549-5930
Fax: 510-549-5939
Email: support@apress.com

www.apress.com

Apress, Inc., based in Berkeley, California, is the fastest-growing publisher of IT and developer-focused titles in the world. Apress is dedicated to publishing titles of the highest quality and has compiled a team of authors that reads like a veritable "Who's Who" of the high-tech industry. Our books are for professionals, by professionals.

Microsoft's .NET 2.0 release brings new coolness to developers working with the .NET Framework, and Apress offers the most extensive catalog, with over forty .NET 2.0 titles, along with our existing .NET 1.1 library.

Plenty more is going on in this exciting year, like the rise of a new web development paradigm across multiple platforms. Ajax is one of the new technologies that reminds developers and managers alike that the Web can offer amazing competitive advantages in business, and that this is a great time for business to invest in IT again. Ajax is blurring the line between web and desktop applications, which is big news for any industry where the customer experience is important.

Java is also in great form, with open source lightweight now "fuelling the Java engine." This new force - including Spring, Hibernate, and Beehive - is evident in the forthcoming Apress Java list. To understand the force here, let's get down to the business focus again: it's cost efficient, better performing, and easier to learn, use, and employ. It has broken apart old problems for Java developers, and motivated Sun to evolve Java to the lightweight Java 5 and Java EE 5 platforms. Java is a mover, and our forthcoming "Beginning POJOs" is a perfect entry point into open source and lightweight Java, while our highly anticipated "Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow" comes directly from the Spring Framework team!

For the open source developer, Apress has focused on creating a clear vision for how open source technologies can meet business goals and achieve powerful results. While other publishers cover the social aspects of open source, Apress focuses on developer insights: hardcore, professional solutions that can have a dramatically positive impact on an organization's bottom line. Apress books can change the way business is done - check out "Pro MySQL," "Beginning SUSE Linux," and the best-selling "Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL."

The Apress philosophy is to provide books that meet the needs of programmers and developers in every step of their academic and professional careers. And we would like to partner with libraries to meet those needs.

# .NET (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=27)

* C/C++/C# (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=38)
* Visual Basic (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=33)
* ADO.NET (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=39)
* SQL Server (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=42)
* ASP.NET (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=41)

# Open Source (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=28)

* Perl (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=142)
* PHP (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=143)
* Python (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=144)
* MySQL (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=145)
* Apache (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=146)
* Linux (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=147)

# Java (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=32)
# System Administration (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=37)
# Windows (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=34)
# Oracle (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=148)
# Technology in Action (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=46)
# Web Development (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=72)
# Wireless (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=35)
# General Computing (http://www.apress.com/category.html?nID=44)

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