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

[Paul Sture]

On 2017-07-02, IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I moved to using "openvms" in searches when the search engines started
to return matches on VMware and VirtualBox, about 6-7 years ago IIRC.

Remember, the Open in OpenVMS has been there for about 25 years, even
though it was mostly "silent".

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