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Kisah di Sebalik Nama Syarikat Besar

02/12/2008 Anarm 4 Comments

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ISI KANDUNGAN hide
1 Yahoo!
2 Xerox
3 Sun Microsystems
4 Sony
5 SAP
6 Red Hat
7 Oracle
8 Motorola
9 Microsoft
10 Lotus
11 Intel
12 Hewlett Packard
13 Hotmail
14 Google
15 Cisco
16 Apple Computers
17 Apache
18 Adobe

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.

Xerox

The Greek root “xer” means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying.

Sun Microsystems

Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network.

Sony

From the Latin word ’sonus’ meaning sound, and ’sonny’ a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SAP

“Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing”, formed by four ex-IBM employees who used to work in the ‘Systems/Applications/Projects’ group of IBM.

Red Hat

Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it 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!

Oracle

Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). 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).

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.

Microsoft

It was coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-’ was removed later on.

Lotus

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from the lotus position or ‘padmasana.’ Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

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.

Hewlett Packard

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Hotmail

Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email 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 casings.

Google

The name started as a jockey 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 graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’

Cisco

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.

Apple Computers

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.

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.

Adobe

The name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

**Artikel diculik dari : Eddy Wu Chaney Web Blog**

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4 Comments

  1. jutawan says

    30/10/2009 at 12:17 PM

    banyak belajar sejarah hari ni hehe
    .-= Post terbaru jutawan di blog beliau.. saya akan melancarkan ebook terbaru =-.

    Reply
    • Anarm says

      30/10/2009 at 1:45 PM

      @jutawan: rajin belajar.. bagus2.. aku x suke sejarah.. pening kepala.. haha

      Reply
  2. dhiyafaris.com says

    07/07/2009 at 12:24 AM

    sejarah nama anarm.net xde ke?
    haahah :wink:
    .-= Post terbaru dhiyafaris.com di blog beliau.. Percuma Hosting Selama Setahun =-.

    Reply
    • Anarm says

      07/07/2009 at 1:58 AM

      @dhiyafaris.com, Sejarah anarm.net? Anarm tu nama aku.. .net tu pulak domain.. tu la sejarah die.. wakakakakakaka :lol:

      Reply

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