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     This year, O'Reilly & Associates celebrates 10 years of book
publishing.  One way we'd like to make sense of this anniversary
is by featuring profiles of ten O'Reilly book customers in the next
issue of ora.com, our magazine/catalog.  
     What we seek are readers who can talk about their work in
a world of ever increasing technical complexity (e.g. programming
perl to run spreadsheets on a Web server connected to a LAN running
heterogeneous operating systems).  How did O'Reilly books and online
support help you solve these problems?
     We're looking for specifics.  For example, "I learned perl
programming from _Learning perl_ and _Programming perl_ and ran my
spreadsheets on Web server I configured using _Managing Internet
Information Services_ connected to a LAN that runs UNIX and PCs
I figured out how to work together with help from _Networking Personal 
Computers With TCP/IP_."  Actually this is a terrible example, but then 
again we're not you.
     What real life situation -- time pressures, information voids, or 
other harsh realities -- did you face in solving the problem?  While 
ora.com readers may not have faced exactly the same challenge, your 
experience at solving the problem with our books' (and other information) 
help will speak to them.  
     The editors of ora.com will select the ten final profiles that run.
What we seek is a two- or three-paragraph description of what happened
and how our books helped.  Our writers will then be in touch to flesh
out the story.  As a thank you to the ten people selected, each will be 
given a free O'Reilly book of their choice.

SUBMISSIONS: Via email, send your stories Brian Erwin, brian@ora.com, 
by September 21, 1995.  
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Brian Erwin, brian@ora.com
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