Editing Lucent Technologies (section)

==Name==

Lucent means "light-bearing" in [[Latin (language)|Latin]].<ref>{{cite web
  |title=Case: Lucent Technologies 1996
  |author=Tony Spaeth
  |date=2007-08-04
  |website=Corporate Brand Matrix
  |url=http://www.corporatebrandmatrix.com/cases.asp?ca_id=47&case=Lucent%20Technologies%201996
  |access-date=2015-03-29
  |archive-date=August 3, 2020
  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803144807/http://www.corporatebrandmatrix.com/cases.asp?ca_id=47&case=Lucent%20Technologies%201996
  |url-status=dead
  }}</ref> The name was applied for in 1996 at the time of the split from AT&T.

The name was widely criticised, as the logo was to be, both internally and externally. Corporate communications and [[business card]]s included the [[strapline]] 'Bell Labs Innovations' in a bid to retain the prestige of the internationally famous research lab, within a new business under an as-yet unknown name.<ref name="IEEE IC, 1997" >{{Cite journal
  |journal=[[IEEE Internet Computing]]
  |title=Inferno
  |type=Full-page advertisement
  |volume=1  |issue=2
  |date=March–April 1997
}}</ref>

This same linguistic root also gives [[Lucifer#Latin word lucifer|Lucifer]], "the light bearer" (from lux, 'light', and ferre, 'to bear'<ref>{{cite web|url=http://latindictionary.wikidot.com/verb:ferre|title=Ferre&nbsp;— The Latin Dictionary|work=Wikidot.com|access-date=2015-03-29}}</ref>), who is also a character in [[Inferno (Dante)|Dante's epic poem ''Inferno'']]. Shortly after the Lucent renaming in 1996, Lucent's [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs|Plan 9]] project released a development of their work as the [[Inferno (operating system)|Inferno]] [[operating system|OS]] in 1997.<ref name="IEEE IC, 1997" /><ref>{{Cite journal
  |title=The Inferno Operating System
  |first1=Sean |last1=Dorward |first2=Rob |last2=Pike |first3=David Leo |last3=Presotto |first4=Dennis M. |last4=Ritchie |author4-link=Dennis M. Ritchie |first5=Howard |last5=Trickey |first6=Phil |last6=Winterbottom
  |publisher=Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs
  |journal=Bell Labs Technical Journal
  |volume=2
  |issue=1
  |date=Winter 1997
  |pages=5–18
  |doi=10.1002/bltj.2028 |s2cid=11962803 |url=http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/bltj.html
|url-access=subscription }}</ref> This extended the 'Lucifer' and Dante references as a series of [[pun]]ning names for the components of Inferno - [[Dis virtual machine|Dis]], [[Limbo (programming language)|Limbo]], Charon and [[Styx (protocol)|Styx (9P Protocol)]].  When the rights to Inferno were sold in 2000, the company [[Vita Nuova Holdings]] was formed to represent them. This continues the Dante theme, although moving away from his ''[[Divine Comedy]]'' to the poem ''[[La Vita Nuova]]''.