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Interesting Origins of Great Brands/Company Names
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There are many companies / brands / products which were named for strange reasons. Below are some of the most interesting origin of Brand/Product names.
created by syam1224 on 2008-04-22 02:18:33
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Cisco : abbreviation of San Francisco
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.
http://www.cisco.com/
created by syam1224 on 2008-04-22 03:09:47
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Oracle : CIA Project code named oracle
Larry Ellison, Ed Oates and Bob Miner were working on a consulting project for the CIA. The code name for the project was Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or some such). The project was designed to use the newly written SQL database language from IBM. The project was eventually terminated but they decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. Later they changed the name of the company, Relational Software Inc., to the name of the product.
http://www.oracle.com
created by syam1224 on 2008-04-22 07:44:41
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Debian : Ian and Debra
Project founder Ian Murdock named it after himself and his girlfriend, Debra
http://www.debian.org/
created by syam1224 on 2008-04-22 04:43:44
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Yahoo : Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html
created by syam1224 on 2008-04-22 02:58:00
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Apache : A PAtCHy server
The Apache group was formed around a number of people who provided patch files that had been written for NCSA httpd 1.3. The result after combining them was A PAtCHy server.
http://web.archive.org/web/19970415054031/www.apac
created by syam1224 on 2008-04-22 03:01:23
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Red Hat Linux : From Cornell lacrosse team cap
Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. People would turn to him to solve their problems, and he was referred to as "that guy in the red hat". He lost the cap 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.
http://www.redhat.com/
created by syam1224 on 2008-04-22 08:25:09
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Adobe : from Adobe Creek
The company name Adobe comes from Adobe Creek, which ran behind the house of one of the company's founders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems
created by syam1224 on 2008-04-22 02:42:27
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Apple Computers : Favourite fruit of Founder
It was the favorite 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.
http://www.apple.com/
created by syam1224 on 2008-04-22 08:59:10
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Mercedes : financier's daughter's name
Mercédès – a Spanish girl’s name meaning ‘grace’ – was the name of the daughter born in 1889 to the Austrian businessman, Emil Jellinek, who had homes in Baden near Vienna and Nice.
http://www.emercedesbenz.com/Apr08/17_001109_The_H
created by syam1224 on 2008-04-22 02:32:12
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SUN : Stanford University Network
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scot t McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
www.sun.com/
created by syam1224 on 2008-04-22 05:00:12
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