How are these any more 'competitive' than all the other commercial
application server vendors out there?
While it's hugely unfashionable to say so, there's nothing 'magical' or
'special' about open source. We could sit here all day and name
'competitors' to Orion. Some will fail, and hell, some might beat it one
day. I don't think the Orion team live in a bubble and are merrily
oblivious to the fact that they do have competitors, and must stay ahead
of the game and differentiate themselves.
Some of the products you mention are at least as old as (if not
older) than Orion. I for one won't be holding my breath for this 'catching
up' you're promising will happen.
Hani
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote:
> The problem Orion will face is that the open source and low cost competition
> will be heating up, and as the quality improves, so will the competition.
> Who should they watch out for?
>
> 1.Resin (www.caucho.com). When they finally get an EJB server out, it will
> be set to integrate with Resin and have a competitive price (around $2000).
>
> 2. Jboss (www.jboss.org) and Enhydra Enterprise (www.enhydra.org), which are
> actively enhancing and developing their application servers.
>
> 3. Jonas (www.evidian.com/jonas) and openejb (http://openejb.exolab.org/),
> where the latter is making partnerships with Apache, etc.
>
> Notice I did not mention Unify, which also has a low cost entry, but they
> still need to get their financial act together.
>
> So why do I bring these items to light? So that Orion is aware of the
> competition, and like the rabbit, doesn't take a nap, but keeps moving
> forward, as the turtles get better prepared.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Fredriksson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 2:47 AM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Re: Re: ORION RISE FROM THE DEAD!
>
>
> As I mentioned before in a previous posting, the Orion team will continue
> their work on the Orion product, partners will do the support.
>
> Support will in the future be the "milking cow" ( don't know if that one
> translates well into english, where you get the money...), and there you
> have the business modell.
>
> At least that's how I interpreted Karl Avedals speech.
>
> Johan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Re: ORION RISE FROM THE DEAD!
>
>
> > >I really hope that Orion is released into the open-source community if
> they're going to tank as a business.
> >
> > I never thought of that. I guess the real question may be: "What is
> Orion's/Ironflare's business model?" Taking a wild guess, not based on any
> first hand knowledge/contact/experience, the 'problem' may be that orion's
> developer's want to continue programming and not become consultants, support
> technicians, etc... Which would be great to have quality developers on the
> project full time, but this seems contrary to a lot of the service models
> that are out there now. A lot of companies now repackage open source and
> get paid on service/consulting. Perhaps they need a quality partner or need
> to be bought out (maybe macromedia should have bought them out instead of
> buying allaire)...who knows...I'm not an expert in this field as I'm sure my
> views have proved. So I may be way off base. I'm just an avid java
> developer with a small, nimble company that likes to develop and utilize
> small, quick, and well-written software. (did you also ever notice that
> orion seems to be at most h!
> > !
> > !
> > alf the size of other major app servers?)
> >
> > >By the way, if some help is needed to host (or provide an alternative to)
> orionsupport, please let me know. I know the boss here; I'm sure we could
> work something out.
> >
> > I think a lot of people would help out in this department (including
> myself), especially if it was open source. I already have a kind of how-to
> in the works for SSL using chained certificates from Entrust.net.
> >
> > David
>
>
>
