> 2.3+..not sure about the new 3.0 version) ). It got shot down simply because
> our "big boys" felt they were too small of a company to rely on being around
> in a couple of years. Despite the fact that I already had our site running
> on it (not production..but on my local box) and it was extremely easy to
> configure, they put WebLogic, WebSphere and Oracle App Server on the
> list..that was it. Even though Orion is several times faster than WebLogic,
> we would rather spend $150k on WebLogic (cluster..$15K per cpu per server)
> than $10K on Orion to do the same thing..yet better. Go figure.
Hehehe Isn't it amazing. I had the same discussion with my partners &
some financial backers for our ptoject relating to my choice for
databases. I've chosen for DB2 for various reasons, but my main reason
being that it's been on the market for more time than i've been using
computers, because of IBM's heavy support for JAVA and it's scalability
(I've been able to use it quite well even on a win 98 box with only 32
megs of ram) Oracle, our other choice, I've personally not been able to
install, neither on a linux box nor on solaris or nt. It cracked up on
some 99%. I had to defend IBM DB2 (US$ 26,000) agianst Oracle (On our
dev machine would be around US$250,000) based on the difference in
price."With that difference, there must be something wrong".
Orion is a great tool. It's the only app server I know, but all I hear
of others such as weblogic, iPlanet is that they are not 100% j2ee.
What's the use of having a j2ee standard and having an appserver that
does things different. Luckily I'm in the position to decide on what to
buy when the time comes. I will never fork over US$150.000 for an
appserver when I might just as well pay only US$ 1500 for something that
works *at least* just as well.
The only thing are the docs.
sven
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