Hello Jim,
Couldn't agree more on the business plans. We are looking for partners to do
support for money, if you're interested and your company has Orion knowledge,
we'd be very happy to help you "officially" to get customers.
However, you say that you have not bought a license yet and that means you have
not yet bought any support from us. If you are serious in choosing Orion I
think it can actually save you money to get a license when developing (even if
you can get free developer licenses), since it will mean you get better support
from us. However, the support you get for $1500 is, needless to say, limited.
We can't put 100 hours into giving you support at that price and still have
money left to develop the product. So we are going to provide more generous
support at a higher price, both ourselves and through partners.
We are speaking with multiple possible partners about outsourcing support and
selling support packages and if you are interested or know someone who is
interested in selling support and make decent money from it, feel free to
contact us.
Regards,
Karl Avedal
Jim Archer wrote:
> Hello all...
>
> --On Friday, October 20, 2000 5:35 PM -0300 "Juan Lorandi (Chile)"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > And also, lack of support & documentation is becoming now, as most
> > developers are finishing
> > their work and reach deployment time(from what I pick up of many mails in
> > this list), a critical point about orion.
> > Many of us are reaching the point where we have to prove no only that
> > orion's the best, but that it also is a good business
> > choice. This is unfairly hard due to little colaboration from Evermind's
> > team regarding, as said, support & documentation,
> > tough it clearly seems to be changing.
>
> This is a key issue. There is an old saying that time is money. Not true in
> software. Time is far more valuable than money. Money can be raised but
> time can not. Orion is reasonably priced for the product itself. However,
> if using Orion means a lot of trial and error development and no official
> support from the vendor, the costs in extra consumption of developers time
> and oppertunity loss from delayed market entry could easily exceed the
> price tag of Weblogic.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I like Orion. I like it alot. Currently, our intention
> is to complete development on it and then license it and deploy with it and
> hopefully sell it with our product. This goal would be one heck of a lot
> easier to obtain if we had official support from the vendor. Right now,
> there are people here banging their heads on the wall just trying to guess
> at what works and what dossen't, whats implemented and whats not. It's
> tireing.
>
> Anybody want to help me start a business selling Orion support on a 900
> number? Just charge several dollars a minute, on an incident by incident
> basis. If the support is competant, it would sell big. Heck, we could make
> more money then Evermind! <Big Grin> OK, just kidding, but this is a
> serious issue.
>
> Jim
