"I did talk with someone from the company, and he said the product is ready
to take on the big guns."
I agree with the rest, Orion should be worried about support and
documentation more, but this statement seems a little silly. Who would ever
say that their product wasn't competitive ? ;)
-mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kemp
> Randy-W18971
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 8:13 AM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: RE: How does this effect Orion?
>
>
> 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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