Where Did That Name Come From ?

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Where Did That Name Come From ?

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


Apple Computers
It was the 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
It is not an acronym as popularly believed.
It is short for San Francisco.

Google
The name started as a joke boasting 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 graduate students
Sergey Brin and Larry Page
presented 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 uppercasing.


Hewlett Packard
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 hyphen 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).
The project was designed to help use
the newly written SQL code by IBM.
The project eventually was terminated
but Larry and Bob decided to finish
what they started and bring it to the world.
They kept the name Oracle and created
the RDBMS engine.
Later they kept the same name
for the company.


Sony
It originated 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.
Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer;
Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy
to manufacture computers based on it,
and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based
OS for the computer.

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.
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