各大IT公司的起名缘由

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Yahoo!*

The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's
Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and
action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo
selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

*Xerox*

The Greek root "xer" means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his
product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then
prevailing wet copying.

*Sun Microsystems*

Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for
Stanford University Network.

*Sony*

From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by
Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

*SAP*

"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four
ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects'
group of IBM.

*Red Hat*

Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (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!

*Oracle
*

Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The code name for the project was
called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all
questions or something such).

*Motorola
*

Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started
manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was
called Victrola.

*Microsoft
*

It was coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to
MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was
removed later on.

*Lotus*

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from the lotus position or
'padmasana.' Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

*Intel*

Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore
Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to
settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

*Hewlett-Packard*

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the
company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

*Hotmail*

Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email via the web from a
computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the
business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending
in 'mail' and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters
"html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was
initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casings.

*Google*

The name started as a jockey boast about the amount of information 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. After
founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page
presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque
made out to 'Google'

*Cisco*

The name is not an acronym but an abbreviation of San Francisco. The
company's logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a
stylized Golden Gate Bridge.

*Apple Computers*

Favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in
filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company
Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by
5 o'clock.

*Apache*

It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to
code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server -
thus, the name Apache.

*Adobe*

The name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of
founder John Warnock.