Calvin:
There are approximately 35 servers, according to the flash matrix
comparison. You should not give up on Orion, but a backup plan is good.
Unfortunately, there is nothing really good in the Orion price range, and if
you can afford it, Web logic is probably the way to go (given they have a
great market share, support, EBB 2.0 compliance, etc.). If you look at the
open source initiatives, you're best to run with jboss/jetty or
jboss/tomcat. According to their web site testimonials, some are running in
production now. If you don't mind paying around five thousand, then Jrun is
fairly good, and I haven't heard much bad press about it. Personally, I run
Oracle 8I, and if you are running Oracle, the EJB technology is thrown is as
a gift.
Randy
-----Original Message-----
From: calvin matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:24 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: Alternative Deployment
Hi,
I have been monitoring the orion news group for some 5 months now and I have
never seen the contributers so dejected and negative about its creators as
they have of late. Don't get me wrong, I think that Orion is a fantastic
application server, but the creators have seemingly fallen of the planet,
the 'new' company has never appeared and confidence in their ability to
support the product seems to be at an all time low.
As a developer I am inclined to stick with orion for development because
it's quick and easy to use. But for deployment our site needs to be up 24x7
and orion with its many support issues is starting to look like a huge risk.
My questions are:
a] What are people using for deployment on high profile sites (as an
alternative to orion - if at all)?
b] What do people consider to be the best alternative/backup application
server to orion (Considering we need J2EE compliance (jsp and ejb), we have
a tight budget and support is essential)?
Currently our live site is operating on a more expensive application server,
but Ideally we would like to move away to something as good as and as good
value as Orion.
Thanks in advance,
Calvin
