“At the 29th Institutional Conference, “Focused on Growth,”
EarthWeb (Nasdaq: EWBX) announced today that it has completed a
significant license agreement that will expand EarthWeb’s Knowledge
Products, ITKnowledge and SupportSource, with Osborne McGraw-Hill
titles. The license agreement was reached with McGraw-Hill’s
Osborne Media Group and McGraw-Hill’s Professional Book Group which
are divisions of the McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), publishers
of some of the most respected and well-known works in a wide range
of professional fields.”
“This new content includes Red Hat Linux(R) Reference,
Cisco(R) CCIE Study Guide and Linux Certification titles which
is in addition to EarthWeb’s current content from its roster of
technical publishers: Artech, ASP, Auerbach, CRC, Coriolis, Digital
Press, IBM, IDG, Macmillan, NEWS/400 Books, Sybex, Wordware and
Wiley.”
“Products from EarthWeb’s Knowledge Products Group include
ITKnowledge (www.itknowledge.com), SupportSource
(www.supportsource.com), and Linux Courseware. EarthWeb’s
ITKnowledge is a comprehensive online library of searchable IT
reference books from leading technical publishers for network,
database and software development professionals. EarthWeb’s
SupportSource is a comprehensive troubleshooting tool for hardware,
software and network support professionals through online and CD
ROM, vendor and third party- provided searchable technical
specifications. Free evaluations of the products are available at
www.earthweb.com/subscriptions.html.”