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

[IanD]

On Tuesday, July 4, 2017 at 6:17:47 PM UTC+10, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2017-07-04 kl. 05:17, skrev IanD:
> 
> > 6 months ago when you Googled VMS,...
> 
> Don't do that. Google it's correct name instead, "OpenVMS".
> 
> I get:
> 1:st Swedish Wikipedia page.
> 2:nd English Wikipedia page.
> 3:rd openvms.org.
> 4:th VMS Software Inc home page.
> 5:th HPE OpenVMS home page.
> 
> I have a hard time seing any issues with that.

Wasn't the point being made that people didn't even know that VSI had taken over the reigns and that Google didn't make things any clearer?

OpenVMS may indeed be it's name and it was in fact changed a long time ago but look here, on this forum and you'll find people who have kept up with OpenVMS still using the name VMS, what hope then for all those out there whom we are trying to reach and let know that OpenVMS is not dead!

I was making the point that people are saying Google VMS and it;s ok, but 6 months ago that was not the case at all, Googleing VMS resulted in articles about Dead VMS

Even if you Googled OpenVMS you got the same thing '6 months ago', which was the specific point I was making

Sure, today the landscape might be different in Google but it wasn't 6 months ago, irrespective of what term you used

The other point being made (not by myself) was that more than 6 months ago (some might argue 2 years ago) was in fact the time to get the message out that OpenVMS was back in the land of the living and to 'watch this space'

I'm quite aware that if you Google now the results are more favorable but the specific point being made was that 6 months ago this was not the case whether you searched for OpenVMS or VMS, the result was the same, that OpenVMS/VMS had no future and that VSI didn't even show up on the first page searched

How many people have migrated away in that time I wonder :-(