History in the search for Information Technology company name is not easy. Just as difficult to find a newborn baby or the name of a band of music, for example. But, whether the name will also affect the longevity 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 and electronics, which is compiled by the Silicon Alley Insider, from HP, Cisco, Oracle, Intel, Microsoft, Apple, to Sony.
- 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. Eventually they both raffle with a coin.
- Sun Microsystems
The founders of Sun: Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy were fellow students from Stanford University. At that time, Bechtolsheim got the project to create a workstation for the campus, and the project was named the Stanford University Network. The name was later shortened to SUN.
- Cisco
The name Cisco is often mistaken for an abbreviation of certain words. In fact, Cisco is taken from San Francisco are expected to be a place other than Silicon Valley. Therefore, in the beginning, the company has always insisted that his name is written with small letters all.
- Apple
At that time the company was already late for a few months to register their names and trademarks. Then, one of the founders, Steve Jobs challenged the founders of other companies to propose a better name than 'Apple'. Apple itself is a favorite fruit Jobs. Finally, the name proposed by Steve Jobs was the one who then selected.
- Intel
The 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, that name has been registered as a trademark of the hotel chain. Finally they give a second alternative, by naming their company as an acronym for INTegrated ELectronics, or INTEL.
- Microsoft
The company name is an acronym for MICROcomputer SOFTware. Of the name he made, 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 is 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 homes in Adobe Creek, a river in Los Altos, California.
- Oracle
One of the initial product is done by company founder Larry Ellison and Bob Oats, is the RDBMS application, which is a project order for 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 the project, but Ellison and oats forward and make the project name becomes the name of the company.
- Sony
Company's founder, Akio Morita, wanted a name that was familiar to their target consumer, the United States. Sony name itself is derived from the Latin word 'Sonus' which means voice. In addition, the name also comes from a slang word 'Sonny Boy' who in the 1950s in Japan means 'Young people are smart and handsome'. That's Akio Morita sees himself.
- Yahoo
The company name was chosen by Jerry Yang and David Filo, which stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle '. It was unclear whether the 'Officious Oracle' in question is Oracle's previous project that was done by Larry Ellison and Bob Oats. To be sure, two Stanford students also liked the sense of the word 'Yahoo' in the dictionary, and in a story titled fiction made by Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels, whose meaning is 'rude or do not know the customs'.
- 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 PhD programming at Stanford that, call it so, to symbolize their website ranking algorithms project, as a project that will involve massive data. But when looking for investors and meet with one of Sun's founders, Andy Bechtolsheim, Name 'Googol' written into 'Google' for more selling.
