>I'll reiterate this, is there any chance of Orion going OpenSource? It would
>certainly make it much more attractive from out point of view. Currently
>we're considering WebSphere, WebLogic and JRun for our next project (so
>there's big $ flying around) but it's impossible to convince any manager to
>spend money, or trust a large web project on a piece of software with the
>backing of two guys (no matter how good it is ;))
I second that. I was telling Magnus this very same problem. I love Orion,
and to my surprise even our main engineer asked me about it the other day.
But, its a HARD sell to tell a CEO or manager of a multi-million dollar
company to use a product that 1) isnt a 1.0 yet, and 2) isnt backed by yet
another large company. I dont agree with this. The VERY nice thing about
using Orion is..if it fails, stops being supported, etc..you simply move
your entire CODE/WEB site to another server. Total cost..just $1500 per
server you ran it on. That to me is a VERY small price to pay for what you
get, compared to the others. Now certainly I couldnt afford this for my
simple "family" web site which is just images and text, but for an
e-commerce site or the likes that is making money (or hopes to be) Orion is
a VERY small price to pay for the good stuff.
Kevin Duffey
Software Engineer
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