Origin of the World's IT Company Name

The origin of the famous brand name
We know many famous companies in the world. Here I am not explaining that well-known companies in the world today, but I will give you information about where the origin of the famous name of the company today.
origin of the famous company name:

Adobe
Derived from "Adobe Creek that the name of the river behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apache
The name is derived when its inventor applied the patch to the program code written for NCSA http daemon. The result is "A Patchy" server, which then became the apache server.


Apple Computers
Over the past 3 months Steve Jobs is not giving a name for his new company because he has not received a suitable name. So one day he threatened his staff, if till 5 o'clock no one has suggested the name right, then he will give the name up to him. When 5 o'clock came, there was no staff who suggested the name of the company and Steve when it was eating an apple. Be a company called Apple Computer.

C
Dennis Ritchie develops B programming language and given the name 'newb'. He later changed his name to `C '. Language B itself is made by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language.

C++
Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then `newC'. Since the birth of this new language, C language first and then given the name of the old `C '. Rick Mascitti is proposing to change its name to C++ as the successor to the C language

Corel
Derived from the name of the inventor Dr. Michael Cowpland. Corel stands Cowpland Research Laboratory.

CISCO
This word does not have an abbreviation as they say most people. In fact, this word is short for `San Francisco '.

Google
This word stems from the joke about the amount of information that can be searched by search engines. The term in question is `Googola ', which means the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Inventors are also Stanford students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page at the time this project was giving a presentation to investors, they then managed to get funds in check form, addressed to 'Google'.

GNU
Is the name of the species of African antelope. GNU project founder Richard Stallman liked the name because the pronunciation. Also, because the name suited for a recursive acronym `GNU's Not Unix '.

Hotmail
Jack Smith got the idea for orang2 can access email via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. Then Sabeer Bhatia made a business plan for mail service. He tried to give a name with the suffix `mail 'in tow. Finally didapatlah hotmail name that his idea came from a web programming language `HTML '(Hotmail).

Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to their company name if Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett, and since then the chosen winner Dave Hewlett-Packard name.

Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to use their names for his new company, "Moore Noyce". But unfortunately this name has become a trademark for a hotel, so they use the abbreviation INTegrated ELectronics = INTEL as their company name.

Java
Originally called Oak by author James Gosling, who came from an oak tree that grows outside her window. But the team of developers proposed several names that have not been used in programming languages. Java was chosen because it comes from the name that a lot of coffee drunk by the programmer.

Linux
Linus Torvalds originally used Minix OS for the computer and then he developed his own OS. Furthermore, the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). At first name to be too egotistical and planned to replace his name with the n OS
ama Freax (free freak x). But his friend Ari Lemmke advocate for Linus to upload it to the network OS, so easy to download. Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on FTPserver because he did not like the name Freax.

LG
The combination of two popular brand name in Korea, Lucky and Goldstar.

Microsoft
Bill Gates initially gave the company name with the name MICROcomputer SOFTware. Later the name was shortened to Micro-Soft, the `- 'is removed from the writing.

Motorola
Paul Galvin give his company name from the name of the famous car radio company was called Victrola.

Mozilla
Marc Andreesen of Netscape's founders also create a new browser to replace the creation browser, Mosaic. This browser named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla).

ORACLE
One of the initial product is done by company founder Larry Ellison and Bob Oats, is the RDBMS application, which is a project order for the CIA. The project was given the code name 'Oracle' because it is expected to be able to answer all sorts of questions concerning all things about life. Later the CIA to stop the project, but Ellison and oats forward and make the project name becomes the name of the company.

Red Hat
The inventor of this company, Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and continue to search for it desperately. The manual of Linux Red Hat is the first time (beta version) contains a call for a `return his Red Hat to anyone who found it.

SAP
Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing, founded by 4 former IBM employees who used to work in the Systems / Application s / Projects.

SCO (UNIX)
Derived from the word `Santa Cruz Operation '. A company located in Santa Cruz.

SONY
Derived from the Latin 'Sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN
Discovered by 4 students of Stanford University. SUN itself is an acronym for Stanford University Network.

UNIX
At that time Bell Labs pulled MULTICS operating system (multiplexed Information and Computing System), which is a joint project of Bell / GE / MIT. Then Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simplified version of the OS. This OS is required to run the game Space War which was compiled under MULTICS. Furthermore, by Brian Kernighan system is called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and Computing System. Later shortened to UNIX.

Yahoo
The word was first invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book "Gulliver's Travels". It represents a person who is repulsive and acts not like a human. The founder of Yahoo, Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

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