Re: Rdb 72 FT2 for Alpha and I64

WhoDat? wrote:
> david20@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> 
>>Unfortunately as Sue Skonetski posted in February 2003 HP's official
name for
>>OpenVMS on Itanium is
>>
>>"hp OpenVMS Industry Standard 64"
>>
> 
> 
> Okay, as long as they don't start abbreviating it OVIS, because then
> we'd need a different mascot. Would it be "a sheep in shark's clothing"
> or "a shark in sheep's clothing" I wonder. Maybe someone could work
> something up like a sheep with a shark head.;-)
> 
> I wonder what other buzz-words we could surround VMS with that would
> improve its image even further?
> 

many were so sure that when we were burdened with OpenVMS as a name that 
things couldn't get worse.  Not only is it worse, but it makes OpenVMS 
seem reasonable.

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