While the higher price for everything Orion offers is correct, it also comes with
excellent documentation, and supposedly excellent support, from a company that has
been in business for twenty years, and has international offices. You can also load a
non-timeout edition with limited concurrency for free. I think the support,
documentation, size, and longevity of the company should be a concern for Orion (as
well as open source contenders like Jboss or openejb). I did talk with someone from
the company, and he said the product is ready to take on the big guns. It should be
interesting to see how everything settles in the next year or so.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 12:19 PM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: Re: How does this effect Orion?
It costs $2500/cpu for almost reaching the level of what Orion offers. Development
version is
somewhat limited, though you could download the 30 day trial for your stress testing,
I suppose.
I'm certainly interested in what shakes out in the industry over the next year or so...
--- Kemp Randy-W18971 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have read the announcement at www.theserverside.com about the ewave server for
>only $595 per
> CPU. The company marketing it has a good marketing and capital engine behind them,
>so I wonder
> how this will effect Orion? It is very interesting that there are over thirty
>vendors offering
> some flavor of J2EE technology, anywhere from the high priced servers like Weblogic
>to the open
> source servers like Jboss. Yet this industry is supposed to be around $2 billion
>now and
> projected to be $12 billion in two years. This means there is a market for all the
>"good"
> products, and the consumer and developer will become the clear winners.
>
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