I guess that's one perspective. For those that do want a list of the "big" companies, here are the ones that I recognize and thought of as "big names": 3M

I guess that's one perspective. For those that do want a list of the "big" companies, here are the ones that I recognize and thought of as "big names": 3M Adobe Systems Boston Scientific Dolby Laboratories The Dow Chemical Company DuPont Fairchild Semiconductor Fairfield Crystal Technology General Electric IBM IEEE-USA Johnson & Johnson Microsoft Procter & Gamble Qualcomm Xerox Corporation This is probably not a complete list, since I am not very tuned in and may not be familiar with the "big names" that others are.