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Founders of Some Popular IT Companies #2

Lotus Development Corporation was co-founded by Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs in the year 1982.

Apple Computers was co-founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne in the year 1976.

Hotmail, web-based email service, was co-founded by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia and launched in 1996.

Founders of Some Popular IT Companies

Adobe Systems Inc. was founded by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in the year 1982.

Aditi Technologies was founded by Pradeep Singh in 1994.

Amazon.com, Inc. was founded by Jeff Bezos in the year 1994 and was launched online in 1995.

Autodesk was founded by John Walker and twelve other co-founders in the year 1982.

Broadcom Corporation, an American supplier of ICs for broadband communications, was founded by Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III in the year 1992.

Behind the Scenes: Derivation of Company Names #2

Etymology of Company Names

Sega: Sega is a very famous gaming console manufacturing company. Sega stands for SErvice and GAmes.

TWAIN: TWAIN stands for “Technology Without An Interesting Name”.

WIPRO: WIPRO Stands for Western India Vegetable PROducts.

Cisco Systems: The name Cisco is derived from San Francisco, the city where it was found.

Guruji.com: It is an Indian Internet Search Engine. Guruji.com is derived from the Sanskrit word for teacher,Guru. The search engine aims at giving its “students”(its users) what they require.

NOKIA Corporation: NOKIA gets its name from the town of Nokia by Nokianvirta river. The name Nokia orignated from the river which flowed through the town.

CEOs of prominent companies (As on 24-06-08)

Company	CEO
3COM	Robert Mao
A.M.D	Héctor Ruiz
Adobe Corp	Shantanu Narayen
Accenture	William (Bill) D. Green
AOL LLC	Randy Falco
Amazon.com	Jeff Bezos
Apple Inc.	Steve Jobs
Autodesk	Carl Bass
Cisco	John T. Chambers
Cognizant Technology Solutions	Francisco D’Souza
Dell	Michael Dell
Fair Isaac	Dr. Mark N Greene
Google Inc.	Dr. Eric E. Schmidt
HCL Technologies	Vineet Nayar
Hewlett-Packard	Mark V. Hurd
IBM	Samuel J. Palmisano
Infosys Technologies	Kris Gopalakrishnan
Intel Corporation	Paul S. Otellini
McAfee	David DeWalt
Microsoft Corporation	Steve Ballmer
MindTree Consulting	Krishnakumar Natarajan
Motorola	Greg Brown
Novell	Ron Hovsepian
NVIDIA Corporation	Jen-Hsun Huang
Oracle Corporation	Lawrence (Larry) J. Ellison
Sun Microsystems Inc.	Jonathan I. Schwartz
Tata Consultancy Services Limited	S Ramadorai
Yahoo! Inc.	Jerry Yang

Where are they located? #2

Company	Location Of Head Quarters
Symantec Corporation	Sunnyvale, California
Symbian Ltd.	Southwark, London
Tata Consultancy Services Limited	Mumbai, India
Texas Instruments	Dallas, Texas, USA
ThoughtWorks Inc.	Chicago, USA
Unisys Corporation	Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States
Vodafone	Newbury, England, UK
Wipro Technologies	Bangalore, India
Xerox Corporation	Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
Yahoo! Inc.	Sunnyvale, California, USA
Perot Systems Corporation	Plano, Texas, USA

Where are they located?

Company	Location Of Head Quarters
AMD	Sunnyvale, California
Adobe	San Jose, California
Amazon.com	Seattle, Washington, United States
American Online	New York (operations in Dulles, VA), United States
Apple Inc.	Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California
Autodesk	San Rafael, California, USA
Compaq(now an HP brand)	Houston, Texas, USA
Epson	Suwa, Nagano, Japan
Google, Inc.	Google Campus, Mountain View, California, USA
HCL Technologies	Noida, UP, India
Hewlett-Packard	Palo Alto, California, USA
IBM	Armonk, New York, USA
Infosys	Bangalore, India
Intel	Santa Clara, California, United States
Ittiam	Bangalore, India
McAfee	Santa Clara, California, USA
Microsoft	Redmond, Washington
MindTree Limited	Bangalore, India
Motorola Inc.	Schaumburg, Illinois, USA
Novell Inc.	Waltham, MA, USA
NVIDIA Corporation	Santa Clara, California, USA
Oracle Corporation	Redwood City, CA
Patni Computer Systems Ltd.	Mumbai, India
Red Hat, Inc.	Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Sony Corporation	Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Sun Microsystems	Santa Clara, California, United States

Behind the scenes: Derivation of Comapany Names

SUN Microsystems: SUN stands for Stanford University Network. It was incorporated by Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim and Bill Joy, the first three being Stanford students.

GNU: GNU is a recursive abbreviation for GNU is Not Unix. It is an organization founded by Richard Stallman.

ITTAM: ITTIAM is an acronym for “I Think Therefore I AM“, propounded by Rane Descartes.

Quotes from the IT world

“In the future, 640 KB of RAM is ought to be enough for anybody”

- Bill Gates

“There are people who don’t like Capitalism and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes PC, who doesn’t like Microsoft”

- Bill Gates

“In a world without fences, who needs Gates”

- Scott McNealy

What were they known earlier? #1

Some of the present companies had a different name when they started off their venture, but over the course of time they switched to different and more suitable names. In this post i will list some such companies.

Oracle: It was earlier called as Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1978 it changed its name to Relational Software Inc (RSI). The present name was derived from the company’s 1st top secret contract from CIA codenamed Oracle.

IBM: International Business Machines(IBM) was earlier called as Computing Tabulating Recording Company(CTRC).

AOL: American Online(AOL) was founded by Steve Case as Quantum Computer Services.

Tata Indicom: The company’s original name was Tata Teleservices.

Motorola: It was founded by Paul V, Galvin as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928.

Toshiba: It was started as Tokyo Electric Works in 1875

SCO: Santa Cruz Operations(SCO) was previously called Caldera Systems.

Xerox Corporation: This company was started as “Haloid Company” in 1906.