Part - I

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.

Jakarta (project from Apache)
A project constituted by SUN and Apache to create a web server handling servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was name of the conference room at SUN where most of the meetings between SUN and Apache took place.

Tomcat
The servlet part of the Jakarta project. Tomcat was the code name for the JSDK 2.1 project inside SUN.

Apple Computers
Favorite 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).

C++
Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then 'new C'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C' which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick Mascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C.

CISCO
Its not an acronymn but the short for San Francisco.

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

Corel
From the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

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