Origin of Famous Brand

Adobe – Comes from "Adobe Creek" is the name of the river behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apache – The name originated when the inventor to apply the patch to the program code written for NCSA http daemon. The result is "A Patchy" server, which then became the apache server.
Apple Computers – During the 3 months Steve Jobs has not given a name for his new company because he has not got a suitable name. So one day he threatened his staff, if till 5 which suggested no proper name, then he will give the name up to him. When 5 o'clock came, no staff, who suggested the name of the company and Steve when it was eating an apple. Be a company called Apple Computer.
C – Dennis Ritchie develops B programming language and given the name `NewB '. He later changed his name to `C '. Language B itself created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language.
C++ – Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language `C with Classes 'and then` newC'. Since the birth of this new language, the language of the first C and then given the name `old C '. Rick Mascitti is proposing to change its name to C + + as the successor to the language C.
Corel – Derived from the name of its discoverer Dr. Michael Cowpland. Corel stands COwpland Research Laboratory.
CISCO – This word does not have an abbreviation like most people say. In fact, this word is an abbreviation of `San Francisco '.
Google – This word originated from a joke about the amount of information can be found by search engines. The term in question is `Googola ', which means the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Inventor who is also Stanford students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page while it was giving a presentation to investors of this project, they then managed to get funds in check form, addressed to `Google '.
GNU – Is a species of African antelope. GNU project founder Richard Stallman liked the name because of pronunciation. Also, because the name suited for a recursive acronym `GNU's Not Unix '.
Hotmail – Jack Smith got the idea that people can access email via the web from any computer in the world. Then Sabeer Bhatia made business plan for mail service. He tried to give a name with the suffix `mail 'in the back. Finally, it can be a hotmail on the idea comes from a web programming language `HTML '(Hotmail).
Hewlett-Packard (HP) - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to draw their company name is Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett, and since then the chosen winner Dave Hewlett-Packard name.
Intel – Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to use their names for his new company "Moore Noyce". But unfortunately this name has become a trademark for a hotel, so they use abbreviations INTegrated ELectronics = INTEL as their company name.
Java – Originally called Oak by James Gosling maker, which comes from oak tree that grows outside her window. But then developers team suggested some names that have not been used in programming languages. Java was chosen because the name comes from a lot of coffee drunk by the programmer.
Linux – Linus Torvalds originally used Minix OS for the computer and then he developed his own OS. The results of this work is called Linux (Linus' Minix). Initially the name was considered too selfish and he was planning to replace his name with the name of the OS Freax (free + freak + x). But his friend Ari Linus Lemmke recommend uploading it to the network operating system that is easy on the download. Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on the FTP server because he did not like the name Freax.
LG – The combination of two popular brand name in Korea, Lucky and Goldstar.
Microsoft – Bill Gates initially gave the name of the company by the name of Microcomputer Software. Then the name was shortened to Micro-Soft, and then sign ‘-‘ removed from the writing.
Motorola – Paul Galvin gave his company the name of the company name on the car radio was known for her Victrola.
Mozilla – Marc Andreesen> of Netscape's founders also create a new browser to replace the creation browser, Mosaic. This browser named Mozilla (Mozaic-Killer, Godzilla).
ORACLE – Larry Ellison and Bob Oats was working as a consultant to the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). Code name for the project was Oracle. An acronym for: One Real A ****** Called Larry Ellison?
Red Hat – This company inventors, Ewing Marc given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (red and white stripping) on campus by his grandfather. He lost his hat and keep looking up in despair. In the book Red Hat linux manual the first time (beta version) is a call to return the 'red hat' Marc to anyone who found it.
SAP – Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing, founded by 4 former employees of IBM who had worked in the division Systems / Applications / Projects.
SCO (UNIX) – Derived from the word `Santa Cruz Operation '. A company located in Santa Cruz.
Sony – Derived from the Latin 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' is American slang to refer to intelligent young man.
SUN – 4 people found by Stanford University students. SUN itself is an acronym for Stanford University Network.
UNIX – When Bell Labs pulled the operating system Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing System), which is a joint project Bell / GE / MIT. Then Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version of the OS are. This OS is required to run the game Space War which compiled under Multics. Next by Brian Kernighan is a system called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and Computing System. Later became popular UNIX.
Yahoo! – The word was first invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book "Gulliver's Travels". It means people who look disgusting and not act like a human. The founder of Yahoo!, Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they feel they are the class yahoos.