From: Kemp Randy-W18971 To: 'Mike Sick '; 'Orion-Interest ' Cc: Subject: RE: ORION RISE FROM THE DEAD! - What we have here is a failure to communicate ... Sent: 4/13/01 9:22 AM Importance: Normal Mike: I do agree with all the concern about Orion's lack of response. I think that three good developers created a great product, but didn't give much thought into how to market, support, and document it, should it reach a good level of success. I suppose we should ask this question: Is there any other ways we can help the Orion team? Perhaps we can get a documentation manual effort together, like the Jboss folks are doing. I know that the folks at www.orionsupport.com and www.jollem.com are doing a great job. And yes, I agree that Orion is way ahead of the open source efforts, such as Jboss, Enhydra, Jonas, and openEJb at this point in time (not that I don't root for them, since I want them to also get to a point to give the big guys some concern). So Orion, if we as a community can help you, tell us how. Randy -----Original Message----- From: Mike Sick To: Orion-Interest Sent: 4/12/01 4:20 PM Subject: Re: ORION RISE FROM THE DEAD! - What we have here is a failure to communicate ... Hey Randy, I think that most people who bothered to join this list want Orion to succeed and I can see how you might have taken David's words badly. There's no doubt that there are a significant number of Orion fans that are very dedicated (me included). It's natural, however, to want resolution and orionserver's lack of progress in the last few months should raise significant concern. Add 'a failure to communicate' to the mix and concern will turn to frustration, desperation, and worse. Orion's strength as a product has allowed a small but significant developer community to emerge around it. The activity on this list, the various support sites, and the strong word of mouth growth of Orion are all signs that developers care and will support the product. But it's impossible to help if you don't know what's wrong. Mike Sick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kemp Randy-W18971" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 3:55 PM Subject: RE: ORION RISE FROM THE DEAD! > David: > Most people on this list are fans of Orion and are rooting for them to succeed. Personally, I root for the small guys, like Orion, Jboss, and Jonas, only because this technology should be available to everyone, and not just companies with deep pockets. Orion is the only commercial server under $5000 that is any good, and able to go toe to toe with BEA on several points. I wouldn't want them to go out of business, and would much rather Orion became an open source project before that happens. It has too much potential to fold. > Randy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 1:34 PM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: ORION RISE FROM THE DEAD! > > > I've been watching Orion for awhile using/testing. It so close to being ideal for me and my clients and we are ready to buy. But development seems to have stopped lately. Updates to the web site are virtually non-existant (ie ORION 1.2 released on main site)...meanwhile we are up to 1.4.5 since Jan 22. I am happy with its current state. I just sucessfully tested SSL with it. I haven't done much in terms of EJB yet, but my experiences with orion still have been great. > > SO ORION - Please get your act together. Or if you must go out of business....do it soon....so I can look at enhydra/weblogic/websphere again...I haven't looked at them in awhile because I have been happy with orion. > > It's for your own good. You obviously have some great programmers who developed this product. They should either keep working on it, or find another product to work on. > > Best of luck > David > > >