Again, my reply to Orion is that they need to get up to speed quickly. They have a
first class product, but because of their pricing structure, their completion is
present on two fronts.
1. Create a notch in markets where much higher priced products like WebSphere and
WebLogic are king.
2. Convince companies not taking the high priced options that their low priced
product is better then open source initiatives like Jboss, OpenEJB, and Jonas.
There was some talk a while ago about why Orion is not open source, and now they plan
to increase Support. Resin, which is a great product, has a wonderful support
structure (providing you want to pay for it) in addition to being open source and
charging a product fee, and they are doing very well in the sales area.
-----Original Message-----
From: Duffey, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 12:55 PM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: RE: What's going on with Orion? - an answer
The Orion team replied about a month ago to similar questions. They are in
the process of restructuring to get their name out, get more people for
support, etc. Its a lengthy process as they told us, trying to get the
company going. It is quite a shock for us after seeing so many updates so
quickly, to see several months of no activity at all. I hope something
happens soon.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vidur Dhanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 6:34 AM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: What's going on with Orion?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> This list has become awfully quiet. What's going on with
> Orion? There
> haven't been any new releases or bug fixes. Does anyone have any
> information? Perhaps, someone on the Orion team can give us
> an update.
> Personally, I'm getting a little concerned.
>
> Vidur
>
>
>
