Tuesday, August 9, 2011

IT Quiz 4

*Which company did Adobe buy recently and for how much?
    Macromedia for $ 4 billion

*Who founded Adobe along with John and when?
   December 1982, John Warnock and Charles Geschke

*Which Univ did Jhon study from
   Univ of Utah (BS,MS,PhD )


*Where is Adobe's HQ and India center?
   Headquarters: San Jose, California and India office at Noida

*Why did founders named Adobe so?
     Name of the river “Adobe Creek” that ran behind John's house

    * ‘Corporated Incorporated' and 'Limited Unlimited' were names considered but not          adopted. What was finally adopted?
Microsoft

*What was HP's first product? When?
      Audio oscillator. (1938)

*Who is Andy Grove?
      Intel CEO

*What is the old name of 3i InfoTech? what does it 3 I stands for?
      ICICI InfoTech is the old na
* What is the consulting firm recently (not very recent) acquired          by the electronics giant   Hewlett-Packard?

Price Waterhouse Coopers

  *Which online matrimony site was founded by J. Murugavel, who himself found his wife        through the Internet.
Bharatmatrimony.com

*Which new Mac. OS introduced by APPLE?
      TIGER

      *What was IBM nicknamed as in 1960's?Why?
Big Blue, Due to its big size and blue color. Also the color of the it's employees uniform, was of blue color and they seemed to be present at most of the places. From original word. Big Brother
*Founder of 6-sigma methodology?
      Motorola - actually brought in the practice
      GE - developed n established it professionally

                    * Finally MS has launched what’s seen as life threat to Adobe. What’s it
      Metro. To be launched as part of Windows Longhorn. (Metro was    Acrobat's code name in dev         stages)

 *What was Accenture previously known as??
      Andersen Consulting

*What is the name of the annual newsletter that Microsoft publishes?
     10 Great Mistakes That Microsoft Did

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