March 24, 2010 at 16:31How popular IT companies got their names
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Apple was the favorite fruit of the company's founder, Steve Jobs. When
three months have passed since Steve registered the business and the
company name was not yet invented, he threatened to give the company the name Apple
Computers if his colleagues did not come up with a better name within 5 hours.
This is not an acronym, as many think. This is an abbreviation for San Francisco.
This name was derived from COMp (computer) and PAQ, meaning a small
universal object.
This is a name derived from the founder of Dr. Michael Cowpland: COwpland
REsearch Laboratory.
Google
This name began with a joke about how much information a
search engine should index. First was the name Googol, a word
denoting a number with 100 zeros. Later, when the founders of Stanford, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, presented their project to the
investor, they received a check issued in the name of Google.
Founder Jack Smith thought about the idea of accessing mail via the web from any
computer from anywhere in the world. When Sabir Bhatia began working with a
business plan for the mail service, he went over all the names
ending in mail and eventually composed a word from the word HTML.
Initially, it looked like this: HoTMaiL.
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard threw a coin to name the company
they founded - Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Updated!
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their company 'Moor Noyce', but it sounded like more noise, which didn’t fit the name of the electronics company because the noise in the electronics is related to interference. They used NM Electronics for about a year before deciding to use INTegrated ELectronics or Intel for short. However, Intel was a registered trademark of the hotel chain, so they had to redeem the rights to that name.
Mitch Kapor took the name for his company from the lotus position, also
known as padmasana. The fact is that he taught
transcendental meditation in the center of yoga.
Invented by Bill Gates to represent the company that creates
MICROcomputer SOFTware. Initially, Micro-soft was used. The
hyphen was later removed.
Founder Paul Galvin came to this name when his company began
producing radio for cars. It is possible due to the fact that the
then popular radio company was Victrola.
Larry Ellison and Bob Ots worked as consultants on a project for the CIA. The code name for the
project was Oracle (the CIA regarded this system as a system that provided answers to
all questions). The project was supposed to help use the new programming language SQL,
created by IBM. The project closed over time, but Larry and Bob decided to
finish what they started and bring it to the people. They retained the name Oracle
and created RDBMS. Later they used this name for the company.
It is created from the Latin word “sonus”, which means sound and “sonny” - a word
from American slang meaning son.
Founded by four friends from Stanford University. SUN is an
acronym for Standford University Network. Andreas Bechstolsheim created a
microcomputer, Vinod Khosla hired him and Scott McNeley to
produce a computer based on it and Bill Joy to develop a
UNIX-based computer system.
The word yehu was coined by Jonathan Swift and was used in his
book Gulliver's Travels. It meant disgusting
humanoid creatures. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo
chose this name because they considered themselves Yechu.
Apple Computers
Apple was the favorite fruit of the company's founder, Steve Jobs. When
three months have passed since Steve registered the business and the
company name was not yet invented, he threatened to give the company the name Apple
Computers if his colleagues did not come up with a better name within 5 hours.
CISCO
This is not an acronym, as many think. This is an abbreviation for San Francisco.
Compaq
This name was derived from COMp (computer) and PAQ, meaning a small
universal object.
Corel
This is a name derived from the founder of Dr. Michael Cowpland: COwpland
REsearch Laboratory.
This name began with a joke about how much information a
search engine should index. First was the name Googol, a word
denoting a number with 100 zeros. Later, when the founders of Stanford, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, presented their project to the
investor, they received a check issued in the name of Google.
Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith thought about the idea of accessing mail via the web from any
computer from anywhere in the world. When Sabir Bhatia began working with a
business plan for the mail service, he went over all the names
ending in mail and eventually composed a word from the word HTML.
Initially, it looked like this: HoTMaiL.
Hewlett packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard threw a coin to name the company
they founded - Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Intel
Updated!
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their company 'Moor Noyce', but it sounded like more noise, which didn’t fit the name of the electronics company because the noise in the electronics is related to interference. They used NM Electronics for about a year before deciding to use INTegrated ELectronics or Intel for short. However, Intel was a registered trademark of the hotel chain, so they had to redeem the rights to that name.
Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor took the name for his company from the lotus position, also
known as padmasana. The fact is that he taught
transcendental meditation in the center of yoga.
Microsoft
Invented by Bill Gates to represent the company that creates
MICROcomputer SOFTware. Initially, Micro-soft was used. The
hyphen was later removed.
Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came to this name when his company began
producing radio for cars. It is possible due to the fact that the
then popular radio company was Victrola.
ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Ots worked as consultants on a project for the CIA. The code name for the
project was Oracle (the CIA regarded this system as a system that provided answers to
all questions). The project was supposed to help use the new programming language SQL,
created by IBM. The project closed over time, but Larry and Bob decided to
finish what they started and bring it to the people. They retained the name Oracle
and created RDBMS. Later they used this name for the company.
Sony
It is created from the Latin word “sonus”, which means sound and “sonny” - a word
from American slang meaning son.
SUN
Founded by four friends from Stanford University. SUN is an
acronym for Standford University Network. Andreas Bechstolsheim created a
microcomputer, Vinod Khosla hired him and Scott McNeley to
produce a computer based on it and Bill Joy to develop a
UNIX-based computer system.
Yahoo!
The word yehu was coined by Jonathan Swift and was used in his
book Gulliver's Travels. It meant disgusting
humanoid creatures. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo
chose this name because they considered themselves Yechu.