We evaluated several application servers before deciding on Orion. Our main
interest has been using Orion to develop expertise and experience with
application servers with an eye to using it in a production environment.
Although Orion has tons going for it there are some things that I would
consider necessary before using it a production environment:
1. Stress testing in your environment, regardless of what you've heard.
2. What are your performance requirements? Does Orion meet them? Does
anybody?
3. A more formal support structure from Orion. I'm not sure what the plans
are for Orion and I think that warrants consideration.
We expect a few bumps in the road but the verdict isn't in on Orion.
Kirk S. Kalvar, Software Engineer
DRS Electronic Systems Group
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thm [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 08:03
> To: Orion-Interest
> Cc: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Re: Server stability, performance
>
> I am also interested by the comparaison with the others Application Server
> like
> Weblogic and Gemstone.
> Thanks
>
> ThM
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>
> Jason Rowland a �crit :
>
> > 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
>
