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From: marcs@netcom.com (Marc San Soucie)
Subject: Re: Servio web-address?
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 00:32:03 GMT
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Jan.Bytesmiths@acm.org writes:

> fehrja@iscdcvm3.cdcgate.dupont.com (John Albert Fehr) wrote:

> > ...I noticed an ad on the back cover of
> > the June issue of Object placed by "GemStone Formerly Servio Corporation."
> > I am wondering if this is a name change or a spin-off or what?

> Name change only. It's still the same company we know and love. According
> to Dan Ware, their VP of Sales, there was confusion in the marketplace,
> with more people able to identify the product than the company, so they
> switched rather than fight. (Marc, correct me if I got this wrong...)

Almost right. We weren't responding to confusion so much as to the greater
recognition of the GemStone name. It's a good time for a name change -
we've been in business a long time, we're announcing new product rollouts,
and the name Servio, while symbolic and nostalgic to us, no longer
reflects our product offerings. Very soon we expect to switch our Internet
domain name as well.

    Marc San Soucie
    GemStone Systems, Inc.
    Beaverton, Oregon
    marcs@slc.com

