I have been using Orion to develop for about two months now and love it.
Soon I will need to deploy my application. I have two main concerns that I
need answered before I can use Orion in a production environment. These two
are performance and stability.
Performance:
I have read in Orion's literature about how they intend for Orion to
outperform everything else on the market. On the benchmark page, they show
how they outperform ASP. I think most of the people using Orion already
know that Java is a better solution than ASP. What I really want to know is
how does Orion compare to other Java solutions available. The ones I am
personally most interested in is Orion vs. (IBM WebSphere or BEA WebLogic).
Has anyone done comparisons between Orion and other commercial products?
Stability:
How reliable is Orion in a production environment? I am not concerned with
minor bugs in the product, as I haven't had problems with it in development
for the features I use. What I am more interested in is how robust is the
application server after running for 30 days without a restart? I know that
if I deploy on WebLogic, it will work without problems. I know this because
they have been out quite a while and have been tested in the market place.
Unfortunately, Orion has just been released. I have never let Orion run for
days on end and had thousands of clients making requests of it. Has anyone
done this kind of testing? If so, what were your results.
I would really like to use Orion as it is a MUCH less expensive solution
then any other commercially available product.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Jason Rowland
