[Info-vax] VMS Software, Inc. Hires New Vice President of Sales and Marketing

[IanD]

On Friday, June 30, 2017 at 11:10:22 AM UTC+10, David Froble wrote:

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> Anything that gets information about VMS in front of people, any people, is a 
> good thing.

^ This

When I search, all I get is Vendor Management Systems, which are hiring bodies far in excess of VMS the OS, so they get all the Google hits

Rather than try and fight a much bigger trend of using the name VMS, perhaps consider renaming it it something like VMS-OS to differentiate it from the riff-raff?

Pointless trying to reeducate the world to a name that for all intense purposes was surrendered years ago through stagnation

Even in a major outsourcing company there was confusion all the time around VMS and VM's

OpenVMS or VMS-OS cause far less confusion, but then look at how many here still use the old name VMS in conversation. I started using OpenVMS here but gave up since everyone else just used VMS and I didn't want to seem like a purist

Let's hope the new Sales and Marketing person also see's the need for clear concise naming and marketing lingo too so we move forward with consistency