[Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?

[Dave Froble]

On 12/14/2018 6:52 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2018-12-14 17:30:17 +0000, Scott Dorsey said:
>
>> Note that what people outside the VMS world mean by "clustering" is
>> not the same thing, and often involves loosely-coupled multiprocessing
>> systems for computationally-intensive tasks.  However, DEC used the
>> word first and we are stuck with it, in spite of the unfortunate overlay.
>
> OpenVMS folks haven't been known to embrace evolving terminology.
>
> HBVS in place of RAID-1.  PAK.  Whatever weird term Process was using in
> place of Firewall.  Block for Sector and Cluster for Block.  Etc.
>
> Your own jargon works great for a while, then folks start to look at you
> funny.  Or the folks can't find what they're looking for in the doc.
>
>

You sure you aren't talking about Microsoft?

And others?

And yeah, some of what you wrote too.

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