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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 7/4/17 4:04 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> 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.

But people who know nothing about OpenBSD recognize immediately from the
name that it is some form of BSD, perhaps even suspecting that it's a
new project carrying forward the old code base in a way that is related
but different. Same goes for VMS/OpenVMS. The person who has never heard
of anything but VMS (and is thus decades out of date) doesn't have to be
a genius to realize that OpenVMS is a newer form of the same thing.
Their interest is more likely to be piqued by something that is clearly
related but different than it is by something they believe died ages ago.