and to be clear, ken fled the music industry in the late 90's because they didn't get the Internet!
On May 3, 2007, at 7:20 AM, Ken Schafer wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On May 03, 2007, at 1:50 AM, Paul Gordon wrote: > >> Is the openSRS brand being dropped in favour of Tucows? > > Simple answer is "yes". > > OpenSRS has served us well but for many people new to the industry > and the company it just ends up being another acronym they don't > really understand. Officially we refer to OpenSRS externally as > "Tucows Domain Services". Internally we still use the term OpenSRS > to refer to the systems and code that the Domain Service runs on. Of > course the name is so embedded in people's minds and the system > itself that it will probably take years for people to completely drop > the name. > > I worked at Sony Music a few years after they changed their name > (from CBS Records) and occasionally you'd see an old memo or log-in > screen that said CBS Records or an old-timer would call it CBS - that > kind of stuff. But it was amazing how fast the majority of people > and things switched without resorting to coercion. > > So feel free to call it OpenSRS if that works for you. :) > > Cheers, > > Ken Schafer > ======================================== > Vice President, Product Management & Marketing > Tucows > http://services.tucows.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ======================================== > _______________________________________________ > domains-gen mailing list > [email protected] > http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen > _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
