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I misread that as "to acquire Apple". Then I misread that again as "to acquire Apogee" (as in, the name 3D Realms went by from 1987 to 1996). Now I'm wondering
by pluma 10y ago
I misread that as "to acquire Apple". Then I misread that again as "to acquire Apogee" (as in, the name 3D Realms went by from 1987 to 1996).
Now I'm wondering behind the reasoning of the Apigee brand. Was it an intentional play on Apogee Software of the 80s/90s? If so, why? Something about "playing with APIs" I presume, but that seems confusing.
- randallsquared 10y agoThe word "apogee" literally means the highest point in the course of something. Apogee Software and Apigee both play off the english word meaning.
- k-mcgrady 10y agoThere is also Apogee Electronics the audio hardware company.
- nl 10y agoWell considering Apigee is a public company with hundreds (thousands?) of large enterprise and has been around since the early 2000s... no? It's a pretty decent name for an API gateway.
- pluma 10y agoUnless you're a timelord, the 1980s/1990s pre-date the early 2000s, so they must/could have been aware of the pre-existing Apogee brand when they decided on the name. But as someone else pointed out, apparently "apogee" is an actual word in the English language, so they may have been entirely unaware of Apogee Software (or considered the brand sufficiently unrelated/dead not to cause any confusion). The reason I'm asking is that to someone who doesn't know "apogee" is an actual word the choice seems as awkward as founding a technology company called "Atori".
- knz 10y agoI also read it initially as "acquire Apple" and had to check the date...
- oldmanjay 10y agoI keep seeing it as a really strange spelling of "a piggie" and then I think "there had to be a better name than that"
- samfisher83 10y agoI thought I read apogee too. I remember their early 90s games like Rise of the triad and duke nukeem.
- bluedino 10y agoApogee used to also be a compiler company, it's where the domain apogee.com has pointed as long as I can remember. They used to have a link to the shareware company iirc. Now it looks like they provide Java runtimes for embedded devices