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Why did they encourage you to refer to it by different names? In what context?


"Mumps" is a pretty awful name to use for the purposes of healthcare software. You might as well call your database system "Cancer".


There is a section called "'MUMPS' vs. 'M' naming debate" in the wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

"Some of the contention arose in response to strong M advocacy on the part of one commercial interest, InterSystems, whose chief executive disliked the name MUMPS and felt that it represented a serious marketing obstacle. Thus, favoring M to some extent became identified as alignment with InterSystems."




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