[Reprinted] What is your company name? The origins of famous IT companies

IT companies
 
Yahoo!
Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, invented the word Yahoo. In the novel, it represents a guy who is disgusted with both appearance and behavior. Yahoo! The reason why Yang Zhiyuan and David Filo chose this name is that they think they are Yahoo.

In other words, Yahoo is the abbreviation of yet another hierarchical officious Oracle, but David Filo and Yang Zhiyuan insist that they choose this name because they like the definition of Yahoo in the dictionary: "It's rude." (Source: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html)

Xerox

Xer is a Greek root, representing "dry ". Because chestor Carlson invented a dry copy product, which was significantly different from the dominant wet copy at that time, he named it Xerox.

Sun Microsystems

Created by four guys from Stanford University. Sun is the abbreviation of "Stanford University Network.

Sony

A combination of sonus and Sonny. Sonus is a Latin word that represents sound. Sonny is an American slang term used to call smart teenagers.

SAP

Represents Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing. Four former IBM employees set up sap. When they work for IBM, they belong to the team "systems/applications/projects ".

Red Hat

When Marc Ewing, the company's founder, went to college, his grandfather gave him a hat from the Cornell champion team. The hat has red and white stripes. He accidentally lost his hat and had to find it. The Red Hat Linux beta user manual contains a paragraph. Please return it if you find his red hat!

Oracle

Larry Ellison and Bob oats once worked on a consulting project for the CIA. The project code is Oracle.

Motorola

The founder Paul Galvin called the company the current name when the company began to produce Automotive Radio. It was originally called Victrola.

Microsoft

Bill Gate starts this name. Microcomputer Software is called micro-soft, and the "-" in the middle is removed.

Lotus

Get the name from the lotus disc sitting (Padmasana. Founder Mitch Kapor was a master of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

(Translator's note: Mahesh Yogi, Maharishi, Indian Religious Leader .)

Intel

Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their company "Moore Noyce", but the name was already registered for a hotel chain. Intel is short for Integrated Electronics.

Hewlett-Packard

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard lose coins to decide whether their company is Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Hotmail

Jack Smith, the Founder, came up with his initial idea to create an e-mail network service that any computer can access over the network. When sabeer Bhatia was involved in drafting a business plan, he tried various names ending with mail. Finally, he chose Hotmail. Because Hotmail contains HTML. The earliest form of Hotmail is Hotmail.

Google

The name is a joke about how much information a search engine can search. It was first called "googol", representing 1 followed by 100 zeros. The founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page once demonstrated their project to an angel investor and finally they received a check for Google!

Cisco

The last five letters of San Francisco. The company logo looks like the Golden Gate Bridge.

Apple Computers

Steve Jobs's favorite fruit. He was supposed to have applied for a name for the company long ago, but three months have passed and he hasn't registered yet. Jobs threatened everyone. If we couldn't find a better name than "Apple Computer" before five o'clock, the company would be "Apple Computer.

Apache

The Founder is from the background of NCSA httpdCodeStarting with patching. As a result, they got the "a patchy" server (the server that has been patched), so it was called Apache.

Adobe

The founder of John Warnock's house is behind a river called Adobe Creek.