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

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Sunday, 2 July 2017 18:07:38 UTC+1, Paul Sture  wrote:
> 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:
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >> 
> >> 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".
> 
> -- 
> Everybody has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough to
> have a totally separate environment to run production in.


Presumably m'learned friends the Intellectual Property Rights 
lawyers etc feel they are entitled to dictate what the OS is 
officially called, but when others are using the 'friendly 
name' why wouldn't it just be called VSIVMS?

A search for VSIVMS already gets a few hits for the real thing,
and although there's still some noise in the signal, there are 
probably worse places to start from.

Go with the flow?