I have addressed this question about pricing structure and developmental licenses to
Orion and received a reply from Magnus Stenman, of the Orion team. He mentioned the
basic license pricing structure will remain at the current price and developer free
licenses will continue for non commercial usage. The only thing they are adding is a
support structure, for companies and individuals needing additional support or
turnaround, for an additional fee. This is good, since Resin has a similar plan for
support, and they also produce a quality product. Considering what a quality product
Orion is and how much the competition is charging ($5K - $50K +), this is a good move
for everyone. Yes, Orion will continue to get tuff competition from the freeware EJB
versions (jboss, Jonas, and openEJB), but competition is good for everyone (From what
I read of the overview of openEJB at www.openEJB.org, it should be an interesting
implementation).
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Archer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 10:55 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Cc: Karl Avedal
Subject: Re: Anyone heard from evermind?
Karl, sounds like great news. Congrats!
I'm wondering if any major changes in licensing or pricing policy are
coming within the next several or six months?
Thanks...
Jim
--On Thursday, December 07, 2000 1:20 PM +0100 Karl Avedal
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I thought it was time for some explanation on our silence.
>
> Alot of things are happening structually right now to the company. The
> biggest news is probably that the company is no longer Evermind, but is
> now called Ironflare AB, which is a new limited corporation. The owners
> are the same so it is not a takeover or anything like that, but the new
> company form will enable us to expand faster than the old company. We
> will announce this officially within a few weeks.
>
> This will lead to a few things:
>
> 1. The company will become more visible, with a company website and
> information and not just a product website with product information.
>
> 2. The resources of the company will increase. The problem lately has
> been that non-development takes more and more time as we get more
> customers. As other resources get available that do more of the business,
> the core team will be able to focus more on development and bug-fixing.
>
> 3. There might still be some time of confusion left. The company
> structure is not the only change we're going through. The expansion is
> just starting and as it goes on, resources will initially be spent more
> on building the organization and hiring the right people than would be
> necessary if we didn't make the expansion. Without the expansion we would
> however be lost eventually as we would hit a brick wall without the
> necessary resources.
>
> I will try to keep you posted on these developments and I want to
> reassure you that we are not gone, but quite the opposite, we are making
> a move to become more aggressive in the future, but it has made us less
> visible for some time and has hurt the product development and release
> cycle, and it is likely to do so from time to time as we go ahead. A new
> release with a few fixes shouldn't be far away now though.
>
> Regards,
> Karl Avedal
>
