Origin of the name of Information Technology companies

 

According to wikipedia, "adobe" is "natural building made ​​of sand, clay, horse manure, and water." But that's not the definition of the underlying IT agency, name selection, founded by John Warnock et al. Sir John was inspired by the name of the creek that crosses the back of his house in Los Atos, California, the Adobe Creek.

Three months late registering and patenting the name of their new IT company that pioneered, Steven Jobs and some of his business associates have not found a name that fits. Steve finally challenged his colleagues to mengususlkan a better name than "Apple" on the same day. If nothing  

Many people think cisco is an acronym. Cisco is the abbreviation of the city of san francisco.

 

Free first. Bhatia Hotmail founder sebeer initially rejected the proposal to his wife chose the name "hotmail" email service for which he created, after failing to find another name, Sabeer wanted to use that name. Besides the word "hotmail" letter contained HTML sequentially. In the early days of their services is written "HoTMaiL". In 1998 Microsoft's Hotmail was bought by a price of 400 million dollars.

 

 

Larry Page and Brin Segery out of the doctoral program in computer science faculty of Stanford University to build IT companies. For a while they chose the name "Googol," which refers to the number 10 100, or the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which is the number of atoms in our universe. That is to show the large amount of data they are designed to be accessible to search engine users that they create. When I met the founder of GS (Andy Bechtoshem) to borrow funds, Mr. Andy liked the idea of ​​that name and immediately bring in a check of funds. But he was wrong to write "Googol" to "Google". finally they are willing to budge. Googol was transformed into Google.

 

Your printer and the ink is likely to HP output.
Large companies was initiated by 2 men, namely Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. They agreed to use a combination of their last name as the name of the company they built together. Who last name was placed first? they tossed a coin to decide hewlett-packard, hewlett packard or as their business name.

  

Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore originally intended to choose the name "Moore Noyce" for their company. Unlucky, combined their last name was already owned by a hotel chain. Finally they chose the name of intelligence, which is short for "INTegrated ELectronics".

Founder of Lotus “Mitch Kapor” has been works as a yoga instructor. No wonder she named company technology he built with copying some yoga positions.

 




  

Computer software company combines the word "MICROcomputer" and "software" as the name suggests. In the early days at Microsoft even wrote Micro-Soft.

Japanese companies are generally named for the founder, such as Toyota. But Akio Morita wanted to make his company does not impress foreign to the ears of Americans who are market hunts. So, he chose the name "Sony" is derived from the word "Sonus". In the Latin "sonus" means "voice".

This company was founded by three series of Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod khosia, and Scott McNealy. They met and became acquainted at stanford university. Andy-Lahyang designed the headquarters of the SUN  first, where they do need a project called stanford university network which, when shortened to SUN.

 

Many versions of the origin of the name of yahoo! One of them mentions Jerry Yang and David Filo looking for ideas in the dictionary. Well, they found the word "yahoo" meaningful "rude, unsophisticated" and agreed to choose the word. Another version says they got inspiration from the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. In the novel the author coined the word "yahoo" to name a cruel racial groups. The latest version is the official said. Yahoo is an acronym of "yet another hierarchical Officious Oracle". "Sonus" means "voice".


Cr : Teen Magazine