Mercedes:
Adobe:
the house of founder John
Warnock.
Apple
Computers:
He was three monthslate for filing a name for the
business,
and he threatened to call his company Apple
Computers if the
other colleagues didn't suggest a bettername by 5
o'clock.
CISCO:
Its short for San Francisco.
Compaq:
for computer and PAQ to denote
asmall integral object.
Corel:
Itstands for COwpland Research
Laboratory.
Google:
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.
Afterfounders - Stanford graduate students Sergey
Brin and Larry Page
presented their project to an angel investor; they
received a chequemade out to 'Google'.
Hotmail:
from acomputer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer
Bhatia came up
with thebusiness plan for the mail service, he
tried all kinds of names
endingin 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as
it included the letters"html" -
the programming language used to write web pages.
It wasinitially referred to as HoTMaiL with
selective uppercasing.
Hewlett
Packard :
they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or
Packard-Hewlett.
Intel:
but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain
so they had to
settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Lotus
(Notes) :
Kapor used to be a teacher of transcendental
Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Microsoft:
Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was
removed later on.
Motorola:
manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio
company at the time was called Victrola.
ORACLE:
The code name for the project was called Oracle
(the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to
allquestions 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:
and 'sonny' a slang used by
Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN:
SUN is the acronym for Stanford University
Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer;
Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to
manufacture computersbased on it,
and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the
computer.
Apache:
for NCSA's httpd daemon.. The result was 'A
PAtCHy'server --thus,
the name ApacheJakarta (project from Apache):A
project constituted by SUN
and Apache to create a web server handling
servlets and JSPs.
Jakarta was name of the conference room at SUN
wheremost of the meetings
between SUN and Apache took place.
Tomcat:
Tomcat was the code name forthe
JSDK 2.1 project inside SUN.
C:
He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken
Thompson as are vision of the
Bon programming language (named after his wife
Bonnie).
C++:
Because of which the original C began to be called
'old C' which was considered
insulting to the C community. At this time Rick
Mascittisuggested the name C++ as a successor to C.
GNU:
the name because of the humor associated with its
pronunciation and
was also influenced by the children's song
'The GnuSong' which is a song sung by a gnu. Also
it fitted into the
recursiveacronym culture with 'GNU's Not Unix'.
Java:
outside his window, the programming team had to
look for a substitute as
there was no other language with the same name.
Java was selected from a
list of suggestions. It came from the name of the
coffee that the programmers drank.
LG:
Linux:
replaced by his OS. Hence the
working name was Linux (Linus' Minix).
He thought the name to be too
egotistical and planned to name it Freax(free+ freak + x).
His friend Ari Lemmke encouraged
Linus to upload it to a network so it could
be easily downloaded. Ari gave
Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server,
as he did not like the name
Freax.
(Linus' parents named him after
two-time Nobel Prize winner LinusPauling) .
Mozilla:
to replace Mosaic (also developed by him), it was
named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla).
The marketing guys didn't like the name however
and it was re-christened Netscape Navigator.
Red Hat:
(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:
who used to work in the
'Systems/Applicatio ns/Projects' group of IBM.
SCO
(UNIX):
UNIX:
which was originally a joint
Bell/GE/MIT project, KenThompson
and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs
wrote a simpler version of the OS.
They needed the OS to run the
game Space War which was compiled under MULTICS.
It was called UNICS - UNIplexed
operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan.
It was later shortened to UNIX.
Xerox:
(asit was dry copying, markedly different from the
then prevailing wetcopying).
The Greek root `xer' means dry.
Yahoo!:
It represents a person who is repulsive in
appearance and action and is barely human.
Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filos elected
the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
3M:
mining the material corundum used
to make sandpaper.
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