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

[David Froble]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
> 

I decided to do a test.

Searched for VMS OS

First 10 hits were all about VMS, the operating system.

Yeah, I too would have first searched for "VMS", but if I got a bunch of 
unwanted junk, then I "should" know to be a bit more specific.