RE: How do you like Orion?

2000-08-04 Thread J.T. Wenting
: Friday, August 04, 2000 02:39 To: Orion-Interest Cc: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: How do you like Orion? It's unfortunate that folks are willing to fork over tens of thousands of dollars for similar products while casting a skeptical eye on products that are more realistically priced. It's

Re: How do you like Orion?

2000-08-04 Thread Michael Sick
Dear Karl and Magnus, marketingHint Gather all of these nice quotes about orion and pricing. Get the author's permission to use them. Put them on a webpage at your site. Put the nicest one or two on your front page and link to the rest. /marketingHint BEA and others would probably have to PAY

RE: How do you like Orion?

2000-08-04 Thread Kevin Duffey
Hi there, Let me explain a few things to you that some others have replied to as well. My company is a small startup (not mine..the company i work for) and we too have been for many months talking about various app servers. I started working with Orion in its .7+ stage..long before we started

How do you like Orion? - THANKS!

2000-08-04 Thread Charles Fausz
Just wanted to put out a "blanket" THANK YOU to all who responded. Hopefully this, along with some general research about why Java is better than taking the microsoft approach will win the battle! Take care and have a good weekend! Phil

Re: How do you like Orion?

2000-08-04 Thread Sven van 't Veer
2.3+..not sure about the new 3.0 version) ). It got shot down simply because our "big boys" felt they were too small of a company to rely on being around in a couple of years. Despite the fact that I already had our site running on it (not production..but on my local box) and it was extremely

How do you like Orion?

2000-08-03 Thread Charles Fausz
Hi there busy people, I'll be quick. We're in the research stage, we've chosen JBuilder for our Java tool, now we've got to find an application server. Our development platform will be NT. My boss wants to use MS IIS and MTS, but I'd like to stay away from MS if possible. So... how do you

Re: How do you like Orion?

2000-08-03 Thread Lorin Kobashigawa
My experience is that Orion is the best implemented J2EE server I have seen to date. The only problems, are lack of documentation, though i've found that all my questions have been answered by the mailing list archives or the EJB spec, and lack of real benchmarks. I don't have any

Re: How do you like Orion?

2000-08-03 Thread Mike Clark
It's unfortunate that folks are willing to fork over tens of thousands of dollars for similar products while casting a skeptical eye on products that are more realistically priced. It's a high-powered application server, not a Mercedes! We've somehow been brainwashed into thinking that

Re: How do you like Orion?

2000-08-03 Thread bradley mclain
--hello, at my last job i was checking out app servers for my team, and spoke to weblogic about their product. to my astonishment they wanted $5k in licensing fees just for dev licenses, so that i and my developers could learn the product (and that is before paying ~$10k/cpu for production). i

Re: How do you like Orion?

2000-08-03 Thread bradley mclain
--hello, at my last job i was checking out app servers for my team, and spoke to weblogic about their product. to my astonishment they wanted $5k in licensing fees just for dev licenses, so that i and my developers could learn the product (and that is before paying ~$10k/cpu for production). i