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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2017-07-02 kl. 17:15, skrev IanD:
> 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 sometimes use "VMS" where it doesn't create any confusion (like here on
c.o.v) but always use "OpenVMS" in any more official contexts. That *is*
the right and current name on the product, after all. Claiming anything
else just does VMS a disservice.

> 
> 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
> 

What is wrong with just sticking to OpenVMS?

This can hardly be the most important issue for VSI right now...