On 12/8/06 7:11 AM, "Budy Superyadi" wrote: > > > > > Dari mana mereka mendapatkan namanya?? mungkin tulisan berikut bisa > bercerita sedikit tentang sejarah sebuah 'nama' .... > --------------------- > > Adobe > It came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of > founder John Warnock. > > Apache > It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code > written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A Patchy' server -- thus, the > name Apache. > > Jakarta (project from Apache) > A project constituted by SUN and Apache to create a webserver handling > servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was name of the conference room at SUN where most > of he meetings between SUN and Apache took place. > > Apple Computers > Derived from favourite 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. > > C++ > Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then new C. > Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C' which was > considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick Mascitti suggested > the name C++ as a successor to C. > > CISCO > Its not an acronymn but the short for San Francisco. > > Compaq > Using Comp, for computer, and paq to denote a small integral object. > > Corel > Derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for Cowpland > Research Laboratory. > > Google - the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the > search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a > word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - > Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to > an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google' ! > > Hotmail > Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a > computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business > plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in mail' and > finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the > programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as > Hotmail with selective upper casing. > > HP > Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they > founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. > > Intel > Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but > that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an > acronym of Integrated Electronics. > > Java > Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood > outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there > was another language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of > suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank. > > LG > A combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar. > > Linux > Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by > his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). He thought the name > to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax (free + freak + x). His > friend Ari Lemmke encouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be > easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server, > as he did not like the name Freax. (Linus' parents named him after two-time > Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling). > > Microsoft > Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to > Microcomputer Software. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed > later on. > > Motorola > Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started > manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was > called Victrola. > > Mozilla > When Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape, created a broswer to replace Mosaic > (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla). The > marketing guys didn't like the name however and it was re-christened Netscape > Navigator. > > ORACLE > Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA > (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle > (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something > such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. > The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what > they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created > the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company. > > SAP > "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBM > employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of > IBM. > > Sony > Derived from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by > Americans to refer to a bright youngster. > > SUN > Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford > University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla > recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill > Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer. > > UNIX > When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing > System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project, Ken Thompson and > Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version of the OS. They needed the > OS to run the game Space War which was compiled under MULTICS. It was called > UNICS - UNIplexed operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan. It was > later shortened to UNIX. > > Xerox > The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say dry' (as it was > dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The > Greek root `xer' means dry. > > Yahoo! > The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's > Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and > is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name > because they considered themselves yahoos. > > 3M > Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining the material > corundum used to make sandpaper. > > > > Budy Superyadi <http://www.superyadi.web.id/> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
