we've had this dicussion many times before. they (Orion team) have decided
to keep it closed-source and it simply is their decision (apart from the
legal stuff with sun, which I personally never bought as the primary reason
not to make the source available without an NDA). the arguments (debugging
parallelizes well etc. etc.) that have been brought up are valid and I'm
sure they know the trade-offs very well but at the end of the day it's
their baby. I'm not saying I'm happy with their decision but I do respect it.
regards,
robert
At 08:21 24.02.2001 , you wrote:
>I must admit -- I am still confused about the Sun
>agreement preventing a J2EE server from sharing the
>source code. I get the feeling that Orion would be
>open to this, if the terms with Sun would allow it. I
>found out recently that Resin (www.caucho.com), which
>has made the highly successful JSP engine, is building
>an EJB server, which will have the source code
>available. Of course, the open source EJB servers,
>like openejb, Jboss, and jonas, have the source code
>available. So why would this be good for Orion or
>anyone, when Orion has such brainy people building
>their product? If you don't think they are brainy,
>the download the Sun spec for EJB and try building it
>yourself. The answer lies in numbers. If there are
>10 people, for example, building and supporting Orion,
>and 2000 + brainy people on this list, what has the
>greater potential for solving problems the quickest?
>Ten people or two thousand people?
>
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