contoso.com - why, who chose it, is it an anagram, is there a hidden meaning???

re: contoso.com - why, who chose it, is it an anagram, is there a hidden meaning???

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:30:00 GMT

Is there more to it than just dateing back to NT?

re: contoso.com - why, who chose it, is it an anagram, is there a hidden meaning???

Garry Martin — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:59:00 GMT

This page from David Gristwood talks about the origins of Contoso - "(btw, Contoso is a fictional company name that we created and registered a few years ago back in 1998, when I was involved in the BizApps event)"

Maybe you could talk to him?

http://weblogs.asp.net/david_gristwood/archive/2004/05/05/126460.aspx talks about

re: contoso.com - why, who chose it, is it an anagram, is there a hidden meaning???

David Gristwood — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:14:00 GMT

at the event we needed 2 companies, so someone in the product team came up with Contoso and Fabrikham, and in the BizApps events, all the integration scenarios where around these 2 companies doing business with each other. i have no idea where the names come from - i guess its like with setting up your own off-the-shelf Limited company, someone comes up with mixes of word & names. Fabrikham is a horrible name! Contoso is better, bu only just

re: contoso.com - why, who chose it, is it an anagram, is there a hidden meaning???

G. Man — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:52:00 GMT

Is there a missing paragraph to this post? Maybe you were interrupted halfway through this entry and figured you would come back to it later? The introduction you have is good, but where's the rest of the story?

re: contoso.com - why, who chose it, is it an anagram, is there a hidden meaning???

John Howard [MSFT] — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:26:00 GMT

No paragraph missing - that's the beauty of conspiracy theories :-) Like a good thriller, leave the audience dangling.

It looks like the 1996 date I found on the Internet is incorrect - I have it on authority that the name contoso was first used in 1998. I'm researching a couple of names given to me for the original idea for the name.

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