[TenTec] Orion 2 - some thoughts

[Randy K4QO]

Oooookay.... I have some thoughts on this latest press release...

1)  Now we know why V 2.0 is taking so long for release.  These guys 
don't have unlimited resources and it looks like we now know what they 
have been doing.

2)  I'm a Ten-Tec fan but I think this is about the worst move they 
could have made.  It would have been way better "politically" to have 
released the major re-write (V 2.0)and made Orion "one" owners happier 
first.

3)  Usually its best to pick the mature product over the latest release 
- a' la' Microsoft.  Looks like we now know what their business model is 
patterned after...

I don't have a problem with a "II" model.  The timing could have been 
better orchestrated.  I own and operate an electronic manufacturing 
company and while I understand that you have to advance, you do it in 
the way that doesn't alienate existing customers.

73,
Randy
K4QO