Behind The Name Of IT Companies (IT Company Naming History)

What is behind the name of the IT companies?. Finding a name for the firm was not so easy. As difficult to find a newborn baby or the name of a band's music, for example. But, if the name will also affect the sustainability of a company? No one can tell. Clearly, there must be a story behind the process of determining the names of a company.

Here are the stories behind the emergence of the names of big companies in the field of Information Technology (IT) and electronics from the start HP, Cisco, Oracle, Intel, Microsoft, Apple, so Sony is compiled by the Silicon Alley Insider quoted from VIVAnews. com.

IT Company Naming History

- HP

Hewlett-Packard's founders, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard had argued to give the name of the company, would be Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Finally they both mengundinya with a coin. Who would win?

- Sun Microsystems

The Sun founder Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy were fellow students from Stanford University. At that time, Bechtolsheim got a project to build workstations for the campus, and the project was named the Stanford University Network. The name was later shortened to SUN.

- Cisco

Cisco's name is often mistaken for an abbreviation of certain words. In fact, Cisco is taken from San Francisco is expected to be a place other than Silicon Valley. Therefore, in the early years, the company has always insisted that his name is written with small letters all.

- Steve Jobs, with Apple-Apple

At that time the company was already late for a few months to register their names and trademarks. Then, one of the founders of the founders Steve Jobs challenged other companies to propose a better name than 'Apple'. Apple itself is Jobs' favorite fruit. Finally, the name proposed by Steve Jobs was the one who then selected.

- Intel

Two founders of this company, namely Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore, had wanted to call the company with a combination of two of their names 'Moore Noyce'. Unfortunately, the name was already registered as a trademark, the hotel chain. Finally they gave the second alternative, with their company name as a shorthand for INTegrated ELectronics, or INTEL.

- Microsoft

This company name is short for Microcomputer Software. From the name he created, it was obvious that company founder Bill Gates was very confident of the potential of the software business. Because at that time the computer is very new technology and software business is not a business that has developed.

- Adobe

Although Adobe means brick or adobe, but the origin of the name Adobe is not inspired by the brick. Rather, because one of the company's founder, John Warnock, have a house in the Adobe Creek, a river in Los Altos, California.

- Oracle

One initial product to be worked by company founder Larry Ellison and Bob Oats, is the application of RDBMS, which is a project orders of the CIA. The project was given the code name 'Oracle' because it is expected to be able to answer all sorts of questions concerning all things about life. Later the CIA to stop this project, but Ellison and Oats forward and make it a project name becomes the name of the company.

- Sony

Company's founder, Akio Morita, who wanted a name familiar to their target consumer, the United States. Sony name itself is derived from the Latin word 'Sonus', which means it is sound. In addition, it also comes from a slang word 'Sonny Boy' who in the 1950s in Japan means 'young smart and handsome'. That's Akio Morita sees himself.

- CEO of Yahoo, Jerry Yang, Yahoo

The company name was selected by Jerry Yang and David Filo, which stands for 'Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle'. It was unclear whether the 'Officious Oracle' referred to is the previous Oracle projects that could be done by Larry Ellison and Bob Oats. To be sure, two Stanford students also liked the sense of the word 'Yahoo' in the dictionary, as well as in fiction titled besutan Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels, whose meaning is 'rude or immodest'.

- Google

Duo founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company was originally named 'Googol', which refers to the number 10 ^ 100. Two students who drop out of their Ph.D. program at Stanford's, named it so, to symbolize their website ranking algorithms project, as a project that will involve the most massive data. But when looking for investors and meet with one of Sun's founders, Andy Bechtolsheim, Name 'Googol' written into 'Google' to more selling.