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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/4/2017 11:38 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2017-07-04 kl. 16:57, skrev David Froble:
>> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>
>>> Is there *anyone here* that doesn't know that the name is "openvms"?
>>
>> I'm very sure there are.  Are they relevant?  Don't know.  There are 
>> still people calling it "the VAX".
>>
>> As a possible example, some shop has an old VAX still in use, and the 
>> people there know it only as "the VAX".  It's also possible that they 
>> don't know about paths forward for "the VAX".
>>
>> Don't assume that what you know is universal.  It isn't, and never 
>> will be.
> 
> 
> He, at my customer some calls the Alpha installed in 1994 "the VAX"... :-)
> 
> But then, they are not *here*. I ment those of use that read c.o.v.
> I do not think that anyone here on c.o.v doesn't know what the
> (correct) name of the product is...
> 
> So sticking to "VMS" when communicating with the world at large,
> is just plain silly.
> 

Well, at the time I (finally) retired from the Computing Sciences
Department at the University of Scranton I can definitely tell you
all the faculty never thought anything but a VAX was used (they
actually went Alpha when they were introduced) and none of them
would be familiar with the term OpenVMS and when discussing it still
called it just VMS.

So, unless your desire is to only speak to people who would never have
heard about VMS/OpenVMS using the term VMS is likely the only way they
would know what you were talkng about.

And, no, I don't think the people in my department are unique among
former VMS users.

bill