Garnet (name) given name for American girls. It was in occasional use for boys in the United States between 1882 and 1925. It was most popular in 1904, when it was 593rd most popular name for American boys. The name has not appeared among the top 1,000 names for boys or girls since 1944 in the United States. Garnet (name) Garnet is a name of Middle English origin, derived from the dark red gemstone, which was in turn named for the pomegranate that the garnet crystals resemble. The surname Garnett comes from an Old English occupational surname referring to a seller of
Gemstone (database) web application server platform. (VisualWave and VisualWorks are now owned by Cincom.) GemStone played an important sponsorship role in the Smalltalk Industry Council at the time when IBM was backing VisualAge Smalltalk, now owned by Instantiations, Inc. After a major transition, GemStone for Smalltalk continued as "GemStone/S" and various C++ and Java products for scalable, multitier architecture distributed computing systems evolved into the "GemStone/J" product. This in turn gave rise to "GemFire", an early example of a Data Fabric for complex event processing (CEP), event stream processing (ESP), data virtualization, and distributed caching. On May 6, 2010, SpringSource, a division