Sun Microsystems announces the open-sourcing of the core Java platform. The announcement was made by Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz at the Oracle OpenWorld conference on Wednesday morning.

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Do you know how these companies got their names… I bet you must have known most of them. Here is a revision for you.

Compaq
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

Mercedes
This was actually the Diamler/Benz’s French financier’s daughter’s name.

Adobe
This came from the name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apple Computers
It was the 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. They couldn’t, he did!

CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.

Corel
The name was derived from the founder’s name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

Google
The name started as a joke boasting 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 graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received their first funding cheque made out to ‘Google’. Since they didn’t want to risk going back to the investor to correct the error, they retained the name ‘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 uppercasing.

Hewlett Packard
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.

Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ‘The Lotus Position’ or ‘Padmasana’. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-’ was removed later on.

Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or some such thing). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later, they decided on the same name for the company.

SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Sanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

Just thought of sharing these facts..

via [expressions in solitude]

Day 1 was pretty much a surprise..

i had to take a bus ride to a venue which i had never seen before.. i took my id

card and notebook and left home early having no idea what the conference

would be like.Registrations were between 7 and 9 .. i reached there at abt 8. i

got my id card scanned and got the itenary and stuff.. There was supposed to

be a Concert in the evening.. ( Drum Maestro Sivamani and Ghatam Maestro Vikku Vinayakaram along with Mandolin Rajesh )

We had our morning coffee and biscuits and then moved on to the show .

We took our seats in the main audi and we were shown some videos and ppts on Java and Sun.

Matt Thompson spoke for a while and then the show was taken over by Kiran Karnik of NASSCOMM and Laura Merling of SD Forum.

Then we did not have the so called break.. Then i moved to

Track2 :Java EE and Web 2.0 Programming using the Blueprints .

Here i got to meet the speaker Mr. Sridhar Reddy,Technology Evanagelist .. We did some chit chat on AJAX and I promised him to attend the AJAX session later in the day

Then came Java and .NET interoperability using Web Services.

Lunch followed this

after lunch came the keynote by Laurie Tolson & Karen.

Tegan Padir.

After this i went to the wrong track Persistence Techniques for Java SE and Javaâ???¢ EE Applications using EJB 3.0. I have no idea what EJB is, so it found some sleep in this session .. he he ..

Next was

Web-tier Programming Codecamp I : Java Server Faces .

Java Server Faces is a very new trend in Web Server Programming. The power

of Sun studio creator in creating Java Server Faces was shown. It was a very

cool session ..The next session was

Web-tier Programming Codecamp II : AJAX.

AJAX is a relatively new technlogy being used too widely these days .. i have worked on small AJAX projects… So was very interested in the name and technology.. I grabbed my seat in he front rows for this session as the speaker seemed to interest me a lot.

The speaker elaborately explained AJAX in and out using Adaptive Paths whitepaper on AJAX…

I was so engrossed in the discussions that i forgot about the concert that was at 7 pm…I was talking to all AJAX savvy people in the crowd who had thronged the speaker with questions..

Suddenly i realised tat it was time for the concert and rushed towards it …

On the way i had to give the survey form to get my Sun Tech Days Strolley

bag…wow .. i was right in time for the concert … i got to stand near the dias

… Man i almost went deaf.. The music was so loud and fast.. Everyone enjoyed

it for sure. People enjoyed the concert much more than anything on that day

The concert went on for about 1 hour upto 8 approx… After the concert it was

time to catch the bus back home.. and get back here for another set of

sessions tomorrow .. What a great day it was… I am dead tired.

Thanks to Balakumar .M for most of the photos

I had been to Sun Tech Days for 3 days. The event was held in Chennai trade Centre ,N
Nandambakkam.

The conference was held for 3 days on 7th ,8th and 9th of this month.

The 3rd day was a bonus day called “Netbeans” and “Solaris Day”

Netbeans is the IDE from Sun for development and Solaris is their OS powering their Servers like Ultra SPARC.

Sun has also open sourced a version of solaris and called it Open Solaris.

Lets get on with my story.

It was the first time i was attending a conference of this magnitude. The sponsors of the conference were Sun , AMD, Oracle, Forum Nokia, SAP etc…

The event was being managed by Sercon. It was a great job done by them.

The turnout was more than expected.. About 3000 people supposedly.. Most of them - developers in chennai software concerns. A huge bunch of the attendees were Part time developers and students like me .

The food was managed by ITC park sheraton. Long queues but they were handled perfectly.

A decent crowd also ..so no mishaps..