How Tech Companies got thier names?

Now we have seen what is 1e100, read the interesting story of google name,but other tech companies too have interesting stories.


The first story, which is pretty amusing and heart touching would my favourite: The story of Red Hat Linux. The Name itself is pretty interesting,and here is how it got its name..

This linux distro was released in 1994 with an interesting history behin. The creator of this distro, that is Marc Ewing was given a beautiful present by his grandfather. A Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while he was college. How ever unluckily he misplaced his cap. Inspite of trying no of ways to get it back again, he hit upon an idea, to include this message into every distro, that would make to every corner of world.

What a nobel thought and a ingeneous idea to get back which he values so much. What do you think???