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

[Paul Sture]

On 2017-07-02, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 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".
>> 
>
> 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?

I rather like that suggestion.  It not only takes us forward, but serves
as a reminder that "new things" are only going to come from VSI.

As is future support :-)

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