[omniORB] omniORB4 for mission critical production app

[baileyk@schneider.com]

If Duncan were to offer support for a reasonable fee, I'm almost sure we'd
pay for it.  However, I wonder if he has the legal staff necessary to bang
out a contract my company's lawyers will accept.  Lack of commercial
support is the big stumbling block here.  I have already explained the
situation to my boss and forwarded Duncan's plans.  I'll do my best to make
us a paying customer ( in both $$ and my time to learn and possibly
contribute to omniORB ) if we adopt it as a critical piece.

Kendall




                                                                                                      
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You might want to consider the fact that the research lab that's been
developing and maintaining it is closing in the next couple of weeks. It
sounds like OmniOrb is going to have a future as a community open-source
project but I doubt it will be the same as having a team of developers paid
to work on it full-time.

That said, I think it's a great product and we've used it extensively.

Regards
Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: baileyk@schneider.com [mailto:baileyk@schneider.com]
> Sent: 25 April 2002 20:52
> To: omniorb-list@omniorb.org
> Subject: [omniORB] omniORB4 for mission critical production app
>
>
>
> My employer is considering using omniORB4 for a small piece
> of a mission
> critical production application.  I'm looking for any examples of
> successful (or not) deployments.  I know the wiki page has a
> few, and I'd
> appreciate a short confirmation from any of those projects
> that omniORB4 is
> being used successfully.  I've been using omniORB for about 9
> months in
> prototypes (C++ and Python) and to show that replacement of
> Orbix2000 is
> possible and that our code base is reasonably standards compliant.
>
> Any reasons for rejecting omniORB4 in mission critical
> applications would
> be useful too.  If you/your company has evaluated it and
> decided against
> it, I'd like to hear why.  What was used in its place?
>
> I specify v4 since it has a couple features that are needed ( handling
> multiplexed requests from a Java client and possibly the wide string
> support ).
>
>
> Any responses are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Kendall Bailey
> Schneider National, Inc.
> baileyk@schneider.com
>
>
>