I would second that request.
>From: "Mike Cannon-Brookes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: A thank you to Orion from the Annapolis Java User Group
>Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 17:52:16 +1100
>
>Is there any chance of getting this course put online so that others
>outside
>of Maryland can benefit? It sounds like you've built something quite unique
>as a tutorial that teaches people the basics of servlets, XML/XSLT, EJBs
>etc?
>
>(I help run OrionSupport and we'd be happy to put it up / host it there)
>
>It would serve as a nice compliment to the jollem.com tutorials.
>
>-mike
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Van
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 5:17 PM
> > To: Orion-Interest
> > Subject: A thank you to Orion from the Annapolis Java User Group
> >
> >
> > To Orion and the people who offer support for this product:
> >
> > THANK YOU!
> >
> > My name is Michael Van Geertruy and I am the founder and CEO of the
> > Annapolis MD Java User Group, JUGerNaut (501-c-4). For the last 15
>weeks
> > I've been teaching a course in this user group called "Java and the
> > Internet", using the OrionServer as a teaching platform. That is, each
> > participant in the course was required to download a version of Orion at
> > home, and then use OrionServer for thier work in the course.
> >
> > I chose Orion Server for a number of reasons. Most notably:
> > * It is free for use as a development environment.
> > * It is a TRUE implementation of the J2EE platform.
> > * Its CPU footprint is very small.
> > * It has a robust implementation of servlets.
> > * It has easy to understand, XML-based configuration files.
> > * It contains xalen and xerces, which allowed us to touch on XSLT's.
> >
> > On behalf of the JUGerNaut organization, I would like to thank you for
> > offering this tool for use in our development environment. Without it,
>we
> > would not have been able to offer this training for FREE (the
>participants
> > paid no money to attend the course). Indeed, many of the participants
>had
> > prior experience programming EJB's and commented on how superior your
> > product implements the J2EE when compared to Sybase, Oracle, and
> > BEA-Weblogic.
> >
> > Oral course surveys revealed that the participants in the course felt
>more
> > secure with the Java technologies of servlets, JSP's, CMP, and BMP using
>a
> > home-grown database-connection-pooling bean. Additionally, this course
> > produced an EJB that will be used by a local charity organization
>(saving
> > them thousands of dollars in development costs). Without Orion
> > Server, the
> > quality of training that we gave and the direct impact this program had
>on
> > our community would never have happened.
> >
> > By offering this training for free to all participants, and by
> > training them
> > using Orion Server, we are growing EJB specialists in Maryland who are
> > partial to using Orion Server. This translates to experienced engineers
> > expressing an affinity for Orion Server in the workplace over other
> > competing technologies. I sincerely thank you and your organization for
> > providing us this invaluable resource.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Michael L. Van
> > CEO, JUGerNaut
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > PS. We are holding a graduation ceremony for this course and others on
> > March 14, 2001. After the ceremony, we are offering open enrollment
>into
> > JUGerNaut (free) and thus, to a slew of courses we will be
> > offering (free to
> > all participants). They are:
> > Java Programmer Level Certification (13 - 22 weeks)
> > Java Developer Level Certification (16 weeks)
> > Java Architect Level Certification (depending on demand)
> > J2ME (the vm used on embedded systems)
> > Java Security API (14 weeks)
> > All courses use peer instruction (the students use books and a syllabus
>to
> > guide them as they study the topics together) and all courses are free
>to
> > partipants. Additionally, we are rolling out a new legal-referral plan
>to
> > all members that will help to ensure they will never be "stiffed" on a
> > contract again. Please contact me for more information.
> >
> >
> >
>
_________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
