Robert,
You are right about us being more silent for some time than we want and need
to be. I can assure you that this is temporary and (besides the recent
holidays) is largely due to the fact of major development and bug fixing
being done prior to the release of 1.0. Currently there is no date set for
1.0 for a few reasons. There are still bugs that need to be fixed and we are
still in discussions with Sun considering the licensing of the Java 2
Enterprise Edition brand and compability test suite. The answer still has to
be Real Soon Now (TM).
To make it easier for you to track what bugs have been fixed and what is
still there we have planned to put up a bug tracking system on the site and
we hope this will be in place soon to make you get better feedback. We feel
confident that serious EJB development works very well with Orion today but
we agree that there are bugs that need to be fixed and we are working hard
to do so. In the next version coming up soon you will also see some major
changes and improvements that we feel will strengthen Orion alot.
Until we get the bug tracking system going we will try hard to make sure
that we are more visible on this list and comment on bug reports.
Regarding source licensing, we currently have no such plans.
Best regards,
Karl Avedal
Robert Krueger wrote:
> hi,
>
> is there a roadmap for the further development of orion? I remember that
> a while ago november 99 was given as the approximate release date for
> 1.0. what are the current plans? this mailing list has become very quiet
> especially as far as responses to bug reports by magnus and karl are
> concerned. I know there is no obligation for you to do so but sharing a
> part of your plans with your potential customers would really help.
>
> we are evaluating orion and think it's a great product but it does have
> some rather serious bugs in the EJB handling (see past few postings). we
> are going to finish a couple of rather important projects a few weeks
> from now and were going to deploy them on orion. at the moment we are
> not so sure anymore because we simply don't know what's happening. there
> used to be replies to bugreports from either karl or magnus about every
> other day. now many serious ones remain unanswered. could one of you
> please comment if this is a temporary thing or what else is the matter?
>
> no offense, really, but a little more information and feedback would
> improve the situation or you could simply advise your potential
> customers to wait a few more months befor using orion for a serious ejb
> application if that is what you think but at the moment it's rather hard
> to plan anything.
>
> best regards,
>
> robert
>
> p.s.: are there any plans for a source license?
