> The accepted story is that the Delphi name was originally suggested by then Borland developer Danny Thorpe as a reference to the Greek fortune-telling temple

> The accepted story is that the Delphi name was originally suggested by then Borland developer Danny Thorpe as a reference to the Greek fortune-telling temple of the same name. One of the goals behind Delphi was to provide database connectivity to developers, and because Oracle was one of the more popular database products of the time, the reasoning was that “if you want to talk to the Oracle, you have to go to Delphi”. Even if it's an unintentional coincidence, Delphi is also where Apollo killed Python (which hit 1.0 in 1994) :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(mythology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(mythology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python#Version_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python#Version_1