Since I had a problem with the mailserver at our new location this mail got
sent a little late, yesterday refers to April 5.
Johan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Johan Fredriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: WE NEED NEWS! We need to know Orion is alive & well!
> I met Karl Avedal yesterday at a Java forum in Stockholm. They're 3
> employees as of today, and probably two more joining up shortly. He spoke
of
> an organic expansion of Ironflare AB.
>
> The main effort is to build partner ships with other companies regarding
> support of the product, and to start selling support packs. The license
fee
> for Orion will remain the same. The support pack is of course another
issue.
> The reason for partners is that the employees of Ironflare today are
> technicians and like to keep doing what they do - programming on the
server.
>
> Keeping the license fee low will enable developers to bundle the AS,
keeping
> the costs low.
>
> regards
>
>
>
> Johan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan North" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:11 AM
> Subject: RE: WE NEED NEWS! We need to know Orion is alive & well!
>
>
> > Nice analogy :o)
> >
> > And one day I'll be able to say that I had all their early albums before
> > they became famous...
> >
> > Dan/tastapod
> >
> >
> > At 13:02 05/04/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> > >How many people are actually working on Orion, and what is their
> > >forte? Most likely, it is probably developed and maintain by a small
> > >number (maybe under six). Sure, they are successful, and sell, but
they
> > >could sell more. Think up them as an up and coming rock group. Add a
> > >good manager (CEO with a good business plan) and a promoter (a great
> > >technical writer working the documentation), and suddenly you have U2.
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Matthew E. Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > >Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 11:57 AM
> > >To: Orion-Interest
> > >Subject: Re: WE NEED NEWS! We need to know Orion is alive & well!
> > >
> > >
> > >I also would like to here from someone at Ironflare/Orion concerning
the
> > >status of the company. My company is currently planning to build our
> > >internal infrastructure on the Orion server.
> > >
> > >
> > >-matthew porter
> > >
> > >
> > >elephantwalker wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have tried to schedule phone calls with Orion by sending emails
and
> faxes
> > > > to ironflare, nothing seems to work. We are going to deploy soon,
but
> if I
> > > > can't talk to these guys at least once, there's no way we are
forking
> over
> > > > any money. We need that "nice fuzzy feeling" that you get by talking
> to a
> > > > warm body.
> > > >
> > > > Are there any paying customers on the news service that are getting
> prompt
> > > > and reliable service for Orion, either by email or phone?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Elephantwalker
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Neville
> > > > Burnell
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 7:27 PM
> > > > To: Orion-Interest
> > > > Subject: WE NEED NEWS! We need to know Orion is alive & well!
> > > >
> > > > Its been around 4 months since Orion went on "life-support" - ie
> > > >
> > > > - the website went on hold ...
> > > > - Karl & Magnus went silent on company futures except for rare
emails
> > > > promising news soon
> > > > - the software development slowed to a crawl [by comparison to last
> > > > year's "rush"]
> > > > - bug fixes slowed to a crawl
> > > > - my email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] went unanswered
> > > >
> > > > Please Karl, Magnus, give us some news, even if its only to
understand
> > > > whats happened in the last 4 months
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Aaron Tavistock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2001 11:48 AM
> > > > To: Orion-Interest
> > > > Subject: RE: Any news from Orion yet??
> > > >
> > > > Wasn't this from *WAY* back in January...
> > > >
> > > > I know that Orion 1.4.5 was released around January 22nd, there has
> been
> > > > the
> > > > updates to 1.4.7, *AND* there were rumors about 1.4.8. But, there
> > > > really
> > > > hasn't been any news about the goings on of Evermind/IronFlare. How
> are
> > > > you
> > > > guys doing? Whats the state of IronFlare? It would be nice to hear
> > > > whats
> > > > going on...
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > Dan North
> > VP Development - Cadrion Software Ltd - +44 (0)20 7440 9550
> >
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