From: seaohveh@hoffmanlabs.invalid   
      
   On 2025-07-11 12:40:09 +0000, Simon Clubley said:   
      
   > On 2025-07-10, Chris Townley  wrote:   
   >> On 10/07/2025 19:59, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> Also, I am not convinced that saying "OpenVMS V9.2-3 is available and   
   >>> running on over 200 servers worldwide and the Cloud." on their homepage   
   >>> gives the message you expect it to. If that's true, then the VMS user   
   >>> base appears to have finally undergone a massive reduction.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Does that include Ambassadors and the community VMDK?   
   >>   
   >   
   > If it does, it means the quoted number is even worse. :-(   
   >   
   > If anyone from VSI is reading this, could you have a word with your   
   > marketing people and get them to fix this ? A stagnant number from one   
   > month after launch is not what you want to be seeing 6 months later.   
   >   
   > Also, please remind them that if they continue to publish a number   
   > there, it needs to be updated on a regular basis.   
      
   This all again reminds me of the Geman Tank Problem:   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem   
      
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