Where did they get those names

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Where did they get those names?
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• Adobe
• Adobe Creek behind home of founder John Warnock
• Apache
• Founders applied patches to code written for
  NCSA. Result was
• A PAtCHy server
• Apple Computers
• Favorite fruit of Steve Jobs

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• C programming language
• Improved on the B programming language
• C
• Bjarne Stroustrup called new language C with
  Classes, then New C, then C
• CISCO
• Is not an acronym. Short for San Francisco

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• Corel
• from founders name Dr. Michael Cowpland.
  COwpland Research Laboratory
• Google
• Started as a joke to boast about amount of
  information the new search engine could search
  10100 one Googol, but a check from their first
  investor was made out to Google

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• HP Why not PH?
• Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to
  see if it would be Hewlett-Packard or
  Packard-Hewlett. Packard lost!
• Intel
• Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted the name
  MooreNoyve, but was already trademarked by a
  hotel chain. They settled for INTegrated
  Electronics

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• Java
• Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling,
  from a tree that stood outside his window. Later
  was Java was selected from the name of the coffee
  the programming team drank
• Lotus
• Mitch Kapor got the name from The Lotus
  Position from when he was a teacher of
  Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh
  Yogi.

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• Microsoft
• Coined by Bill Gates from
• MICROcomputer SOFTware.
• Motorola
• Founder Paul Galvin started manufacturing radios
  for cars when the popular radio company at the
  time was called Victrola

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• Mozilla
• Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape created a
  browser Mosaic it was Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla)
• ORACLE
• Larry Ellison and Bob Oats worked on a project
  for CIA whose code name was Oracle.

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• Red Hat
• Founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse
  team cap with red and white stripes by his
  grandfather and he lost it.
• The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux
  had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if
  found.

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• Yahoo!
• Invented by Jonathan Swift in Gullivers Travels
  for a person who is repulsive in appearance and
  action and is barely human. Founders Jerry Yand
  and David Filo considered themselves Yahoos
• 3M
• Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing company
  started by mining material used to make
  sandpaper.