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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2017-07-02, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2017-07-02, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> 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 :-)
>

The problem is that the kind of people I would like to see the existence
of VSI advertised to aren't going to know to search for VSIVMS.

They are going to be searching for the terms they are familiar with
which will hopefully include OpenVMS (instead of plain VMS because
of the junk that searching for VMS shows up these days).

If VMS is renamed, then they will not find VMS directly so you would
be relying on the links they find to make the connection for you.

Simon.

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