the name behind the massive corporate

 Here are the stories behind the emergence of large corporate names in the field of IT and electronics, which was collected by Silicon Alley Insider


- Sun Microsystems 
The Sun founder Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy were fellow students from Stanford University. At that time, Bechtolsheim got a project to build workstations for the campus, and the project was named the Stanford University Network. The name was later shortened to SUN. 


- HP 
Hewlett-Packard's founders, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard had argued to give the name of the company, would be Packard-Hewlett or Hewlett-Packard. Finally they both toss it with a coin to decide. 


- Cisco 
Cisco's name is often mistaken for an abbreviation of certain words. In fact, Cisco is taken from San Francisco is expected to be a place other than Silicon Valley. Therefore, in the early years, the company has always insisted that his name is written with small letters all. 


-Apple 
At that time the company was already late for a few months to register their names and trademarks. 
Then, one of the founders, the founders Steve Jobs challenged other companies to propose a better name than 'Apple'. Apple itself is Jobs' favorite fruit. Finally, the name proposed by Steve Jobs was the one who then selected. 


- Intel 
Two founders of this company, namely Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore, had wanted to call the company with a combination of two of their names 'Moore Noyce'. Unfortunately, that name has been registered as a trademark of hotel chains. Finally they gave the second alternative, with their company name as a shorthand for INTegrated ELectronics, or INTEL.