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About EarthWeb
EarthWeb Inc.(http://www.earthweb.com) is a leading provider of online services for the
worldwide professional IT community.
EarthWeb began meeting its mission of serving the complete needs of technical professionals
worldwide with the launch of its flagship online service, developer.com
(http://www.developer.com) in 1996. Developer.com offers development professionals an
integrated environment of content, community and commerce with vast user-contributed resource
directories as well as discussions, news, shopping and more. To extend its technology
offerings and serve additional members of this multi-million member community, EarthWeb also
provides a variety of other online services including developerdirect.com, Datamation.com,
Gamelan.com, HTMLGoodies.com, JavaGoodies.com, JARS.com, Javascripts.com, IntranetJournal.com
and RoadCoders.com.
Now EarthWeb has launched its first subscriber-only service, ITKnowledge.com. ITKnowledge.com
provides one of the Internet's most extensive knowledge bases of technical information
through access to the full text of hundreds of publications from leading technical
publishers. This fast-growing members-only service currently includes books from Macmillan
Computer Publishing, Ziff-Davis Press, Que, New Riders, Sams.net, CRC, Coriolis/Ventana, a
subsidiary of Thompson Publishing, Wordware and many more. Through simple one-step searches
of these extensive texts, subscribers can get immediate answers to their most complex
technical questions. With easy cut, paste and download capabilities, they'll also have
constant local access to the tens of thousands of pages of code and information available to
subscribers.
EarthWeb plans to continue its growth in the next year through the addition of thousands of
resources to its paid and free online services, the launch of several International sites for
IT Professionals, the publishing of a book series through its EarthWeb Press imprint with
Macmillan Computer Publishing and the hosting of its first IT-focused conference. These plans
will work to expand EarthWeb's offerings even further and enable the company to continue to
meet the needs of a rapidly growing audience of IT Professionals worldwide.
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