Full Form of few IT Companies

PIN

Did You Know How These Names Came About!

Adobe – 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

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.

C – Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it ‘New B’. He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie)

CISCO – its not an acronymn but the short for San Francisco.

Compaq – using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

GNU – a species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humour associated with its pronuniciation and was also influenced by the children’s song ‘The Gnu Song’ which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with ‘GNU’s Not Unix’.

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.
Leave a comment if u like them….

Advised By parag (blog reader)

infosys – info-information, sys-systems : information systems

wipro – western indian products

Suggested by Atul Sharma (Yet, another blog reader) on September 26, 2008

NXP Semiconductor– Next Experience Semiconductor

AOL– America Online

BPL– British Process Laboratory

Cheers !!

Realin !

Comments (38)

  1. dushyant

    April 2, 2008 at 11:39 am

    this information are really funtastic .
    thank you !!

  2. dushyant

    April 2, 2008 at 11:39 am

    this information are really funtastic .
    thank you !!

  3. The Realin

    April 2, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    anytime time buddy 🙂

  4. varun

    June 10, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    thanks yaar
    lot of good information.
    keep going. well done

  5. av shrivastava

    July 7, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    good dear this is an important information for job seekers

  6. parag

    July 17, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    u can add for infosys & wipro too.

    infosys: info-information, sys-systems : information systems

    wipro: western indian products

  7. The Realin

    July 17, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    Hey thanks parag,

    I have added them 🙂

  8. VINAY

    September 6, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    Hi, thanks sir
    it is a fantastic and marvellous information . thanks for all that.

  9. Atul Sharma

    September 26, 2008 at 3:42 pm

    one more suggestion

    BPL- British Process Laboratory

  10. Atul Sharma

    September 26, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    some more

    NXP Semiconductor- Next Experience Semiconductor

    AOL- America Online

  11. The Realin

    September 26, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Great job atul !!
    I have added it 🙂

  12. baskale.biz

    December 9, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    Nice blog btw

  13. symer

    December 12, 2008 at 3:21 am

    Thanks a lot for this post

  14. Mayank

    May 12, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    this is truly fantastic
    i m feel pleasure to know all this things

  15. swati

    June 8, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    very-2 thank u so much bcz it’s really funtastic information and it’s really help to freshers to get there jobs………..

  16. gaurav(aligarh)

    July 21, 2009 at 10:22 pm

    these are very important and intresting information. I am very thankful from the depth of my heart to the guy who have done it.

  17. gaurav

    July 21, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    these are very important and intresting information. Really I am very thankful to the guy, who have done it.

  18. Sachin Khosla

    July 21, 2009 at 10:32 pm

    @gaurav Thanks for the appreciation dude 🙂

  19. Nabeel

    September 24, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    ZEN -ZERO ENGINE NOISE
    IKON – I KNOW ONE NAME
    ADIDAS – ALL DAY I DREAM ABT SPORTS

  20. Nabeel

    September 24, 2009 at 11:50 pm

    Full form of HCL computers is Hindustan Computers Limited(HCL

  21. AMIT SAURAV

    December 25, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    hey dude i was looking for a site where i can get them altogether……………..thanx a lot……..u can add for YAHOO-YET ANOTHER HIERARCHAL OFFICIOUS ORACLE. u are doing it well man…….go on……

  22. AMIT SAURAV

    December 25, 2009 at 11:58 pm

    hey i know that u love IT ……..i found the abbreviation of word COMPUTER–commonly operated machine particularly used for trade education and research………..u can add it if u want……………..
    ok ………….bye lots of appreciation for ur work………bye tc

  23. Praveen

    January 17, 2010 at 9:38 am

    I need the full form on DONE and similar type of words…pls provide me.

  24. neha

    June 26, 2010 at 9:05 am

    really, it was great information about IT companies
    hey, u can add if if u want………..
    full form of oracle,

    oak ridge automatic computers local engine

    ok.
    bye

  25. tej

    July 20, 2010 at 10:27 pm

    can anybody tell me the full form of “LSI” please…..

  26. kiran

    August 14, 2010 at 2:44 pm

    thank you sir.it’s rly grt.keep it up

  27. Mallesh Bandari

    August 26, 2010 at 11:31 pm

    Hi..You can add some more……..
    DLF:- Delhi Land Finance
    ICICI:- Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India
    GMRIL:- Grandhi Malikarjun Rao Infrastructure Limited
    JSW:- Jindal Steel Works
    MRPL:- Mngalore Refinery Petroleum Limited
    LITL:- Lanco Infratech Limited
    GVKPIL:-Gunapati Venkata Krishna Reddy Power & Infrastructure Limited
    IOCL:- Indian Oil Corporation Limited
    Bye…

  28. Jatan

    September 10, 2010 at 8:55 pm

    Thank u 4 all the info.
    u can add
    DLF-Daily Lease Finance
    STAR TV-Satelite Television Asion Region
    BMW-beverion Motor Works
    AUDI-Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt
    IDBI-Industrial Development Bank of India

  29. prashant

    September 13, 2010 at 11:09 am

    wipro stands for western indian vegetable products, because they were originally started the business of edable oils.

  30. Sathish Kanna

    October 21, 2010 at 10:48 am

    HCL – Hindustan Computers Limited
    CTS – Cognizant Technology Solutions
    TCS – Tata Consultancy Services

  31. mayuresh

    November 28, 2010 at 4:43 pm

    good work guys….

  32. divya

    December 8, 2010 at 7:37 pm

    Hey what about hcl

  33. aakash kag

    December 15, 2010 at 12:51 am

    it is excellent information …..thanx

  34. aakash kag

    December 15, 2010 at 12:52 am

    divya hcl means hindustan corpareted limited

  35. aakash kag

    December 15, 2010 at 12:54 am

    u casn add

    ibm -international busnias machine

  36. amit varhney

    December 19, 2010 at 6:23 pm

    thanx for the information
    it is fantastic
    i want some current fuul form of other it company
    like IBM nd others

  37. chaithra

    December 29, 2010 at 8:29 pm

    may i know d full form of CGI company???????????pls

  38. Anu

    January 2, 2011 at 7:31 pm

    It’s common gateway interface.Exactly wat is the full form of HCL.

Comments are closed.