I was searching on the wikipedia when I find this topic about the word ADOBE. Have you ever imagine what does the word Adobe really means? Here it is as in the Wikipedia.org:
“Adobe is a natural building material composed of sand, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dried in the sun. It is similar to cob and mudbrick. Adobe structures are extremely durable and account for the oldest extant buildings on the planet. Adobe buildings also offer significant advantages in hot, dry climates; they remain cooler as adobe stores and releases heat very slowly”.
The difinition is saying that this type of buildings are durable and offers advantages in hot and dry climate, does this has any relation with naming the company with Adobe?
Read more about the difinition fo the word ADOBE on Wikipedia on the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe
And you can also find more about Adobe the company at the following URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems
January 18th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Adobe, in the case of Adobe Systems, comes from the name of a creek behind the houses of the founders of Adobe: Dr John Warnock and Dr. Chuck Geschke. It was also chosen as it would appear “at the beginning of the phone book”.
January 18th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Hello
(I’m french).
Adobe is the name of a river. River next to location where was created the Adobe company: San Jose/ California.
See you.
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January 18th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
“The company name Adobe comes from the Adobe Creek, which ran behind the house of one of the company’s founders” as one can read in the Wikipedia article.
“The creek crosses an area of flat to rolling plains surfaced with mesquite and various grasses. The stream received its name from the sandy and clayey soils along its banks, which were used to make adobe bricks. Bent, St. Vrain and Company used these soils to construct their adobe trading house in 1843. The Adobe Walls trading post of 1874 was also located near the creek” [Pauline D. and R. L. Robertson, Cowman’s Country: Fifty Frontier Ranches in the Texas Panhandle, 1876-1887 (Amarillo: Paramount, 1981)]
Here is some more info, for true Adobe fans:
A QT panorama of the Adobe Creek http://www.virtualparks.org/scenes/ZHvt70xur8ZGP1dKa4EvZdg.html and some watershed maps and the area http://www.museumca.org/creeks/1440-RescAdobe.html