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 an