I've seen companies buy out a competitor just so they can remove their
products from the market...
The fact that it turned up in Bugzilla was a very good indication for me it
was a joke :)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Keith Kwiatek
> Sent: 27 October 2003 13:53
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Re: rumors
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> Probably not... but you know sooner or later someone is going to buy
> Orion... and the product price will NOT remain anywhere near
> $1500 OR be
> "free" to non-commercial projects !!
>
> I like Orion, but for projects on a budget, I think it is
> safer and less
> costly to maybe go with http://www.ejboss.org/ or
> http://www.evidian.com/jonas/index.htm. These are dedicated
> "open source"
> ejb servers.... aaaahh if only Orion would open source.....
>
> Admittedly, I don't know how the above ejb servers compare to
> orion..... I
> know they don't have servlets/jsp... but then there is the
> open source free
> resin...
>
> Keith
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Frank Kettenbeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 4:51 AM
> Subject: rumors
>
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> > is this a rumor or a joke ? just found it on bugzilla of
> > Orionserver.com... as a headline
> >
> > "BEA Closes Acquisition of Orion - The transaction is valued at
> > approximately DM 582 million (US$283 million). "
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