I am not sure about major sites running Orion, but here is some food for thought:
When you mean better, what is the criteria? Able to handle a greater amount of
traffic? Better documentation? Fewer bugs found? Site not bouncing that often? You
can go to www.netcraft.com, and see what a site is running and how often the server
has been bounced.
1. According to the comparisons at www.orionserver.com, Orion and Resin are neck and
neck, as far as speed goes.
2. The documentation for Jrun is excellent, but it doesn't fair as well as Resin or
Orion, according to Orion's own benchmarks. Resin and Orion could use some lessons
from Jrun on how to produce good documentation.
3. I have played with Resin a bit, and I like it. One nice thing I like is the
documentation contains instructions in setting up Resin with various EJB servers, such
as WebLogic, Orion, Jboss, and Jonas.
You would be hard pressed to say Orion, Resin, or Jrun are bad products -- they are
actually quite good. I am sure there are sites running all three, and the prices are
not bad:
1. $500 for basic Resin, $1500 for Orion, and about $5000 for Jrun.
-----Original Message-----
From: Burr Sutter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 10:57 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: Developers
Just downloaded the Orion Server and was wondering what the current userbase
thought about the product.
Is it stable and scalable enough to deploy a major website using Servlets,
JSP and EJB?
Better than Resin? JRun?
I've used WebSphere, WebLogic and SilverStream.
Thanks,
Burr
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