"Agilent" seemed a bow to the then fashionable Agile business practices. "Lean" seems to be the modern (and more to my taste/experience) equivalent, but as much as I'd like to love it I just can't.
For one thing, having suffered 10-15 years of BBC World announcers pronouncing e.g. DNA recombinase as DNA recombiNazi (ca. the mid 90s, I think, BBC World decided to eschew RP for "local pronunciations and global accents", which I'm sorry to say, often sound ignorant to me), I can't look forward with great anticipation to their mangling of Agilean -- "A Gillian"? "Agile LAN"?
For another, that harkens back a century or more to the era when seemingly every brand name had to end in organic chemistry suffixes such as "ine" (Vaseline, gasoline, Valvoline, Maybelline, etc.) As I recall this led to a backlash of "friendlier, less scientific" brand names, including such nonsense as an excess of o's (gelatin named "Jello"; Oreo trouncing the well-established Hydrox, O-o-ovaltine supplanting Horlick's). "Chipprinto? Princhippeo?" I don't need that.
I don't know what to call it this time around, but I'd like to start a viral stealth campaign now, so that in 15-20 years, when they go through this all again, trying for the friendly theme, there will be a pre-built contingent for Bill and Dave's Excellent Equipment, instead of, say, Measure-o