Hi,
> One thing we'll probably end up doing is getting a pricey app
> server so we
> can tell outside folks we have it, and then continue using
> Orion so that we
> can assure ourselves that things will work. Seems stupid, but
> that's the way
> things are.
Thats a good ideas as long as they don't use any netcraft website style
stuff..where they can enter a domain name and see the server and version
info! :)
> One valid concern our business folks have is, "what is
> Orion's future?" _I_
> don't know where they stand from a business viewpoint
> (revenue, profits,
> business plan) and so it's really tough to know whether
> they'll be around in
> a year. What's to stop them being bought out? For this reason
> we'll end up
> using Orion in production to some degree, but we'll also have a shiny
> stand-by app server migration plan, JIC.
That is a concern of ours as well. I am hoping with WebLogic 6.0 I can
easily move our app from Orion to WebLogic so that I can "prove" to my boss
that its moveable. I have experienced the same pains you have..in that while
our app is fully Java (and hopefully soon J2EE), it doesn't seem to be
easily moveable as once thought. I think its probably 99% server related..I
haven't had to change any code to run on different servers. But it does
require some tweaking, and I have yet to move my Orion app successfully to
WebLogic. I think that is because WebLogic is far from implementing J2EE as
Orion has. (Pretty sad when you compare the small team of Orion compared to
the large team of developers WebLogic has).
