Daily Archive for May 3rd, 2005

Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the
house of founder John Warnock.

Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying
patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A
PAtCHy’ server — thus, the name Apache

Apple Computers – favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three
months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to
call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t
suggest a better name by 5 o’clock.

CISCO - its not an acronym but the short for San Francisco.

Google – the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of
information the search-engine would be able to search. It was
originally named ‘Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1
followed by 100 zeros. After founders – Stanford grad students Sergey
Brin and Larry Page resented their project to an angel investor, they
received a cheque made out to ‘Google’

Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the
web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up
with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of
names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included
the letters “html” – the programming language used to write web
pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper
casing.

HP - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether
the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-
Hewlett.

Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new
company ‘Moore Noyce’ but that was already trademarked by a hotel
chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated
ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes) - Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ‘The
Lotus Position’ or ‘Padmasana’. Kapor used to be a teacher of
Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Microsoft – coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was
devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft,
the ‘-’ was removed later on.

Motorola - Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his
company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio
company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE - Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting
project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for
the project was called Oracle(the CIA saw this as the system to give
answers to all questions or something such).
Acronym for: One Real ******* Called Larry Ellison ??

Red Hat – Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse
team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his
grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The
manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers
to return his Red Hat if found by anyone !

SAP - “Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing”, formed by
4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in
the ‘Systems/Applications/Projects’ group of IBM.

Sony – from the Latin word ‘sonus’ meaning sound, and ‘sonny’ a slang
used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN - founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym
for Stanford University Network.

Xerox - The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to
say dry’ (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then
prevailing wet copying). The Greek root `xer’ means dry.

Yahoo! - the word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his
book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. It represents a person who is repulsive in
appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang
and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves
yahoos.

These all and few more are here…http://www.ajmalbeig.addr.com/comp_info.htm