From: bill.gunshannon@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/8/2025 1:43 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   > On 8/8/2025 1:33 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   >> The VSI website has been updated and now says:   
   >>   
   >> |OpenVMS V9.2-3 is available and running on hundreds of servers   
   >> worldwide and   
   >> |the Cloud. Join the transformation and virtualize your OpenVMS   
   >> environment!   
   >>   
   >> Given that this release has been available for over 6 months, I am not   
   >> convinced the above reads any better.   
   >>   
   >> Am I expecting too much here, or would you expect the above to read well   
   >> over a thousand by now (and ideally several thousand) or is the remaining   
   >> VMS user base now much smaller than it was even, say, 5-10 years ago ?   
   >   
   > It got changed.   
   >   
   > And "hundreds of" is undoubtedly correct. As it strictly speaking   
   > just say more than two hundred.   
   >   
   > Some readers may assume that hundreds imply less than thousand. But   
   > that is reading between the lines.   
      
   The wonders of the english language.   
      
   Example:  "I would waste no time hiring this person."   
      Is that a plus or a minus?   
      
   Or the one that we see on TV every day from a local lawyers office:   
   "No on will work harder for you than us."   Hmmmmm....   
      
   bill   
      
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