AnywhereYouGo.Com Selects Lutris Technologies'
Enhydra Server
Apr 3rd, 22:35 UTC
Leading Open Source JavaTM/XML Application Server Meets and Exceeds Expectations for Wireless Internet Developers Community Site
Santa Cruz, Calif., April 3, 2000 - Lutris Technologies Inc., an Open Source enterprise software and services company, today announced that its Enhydra Open Source JavaTM/XML application server has been selected to power AnywhereYouGo.com, the premier community site for wireless Internet developers and IT managers. AnywhereYouGo.com provides industry news and reports, directories of developers and applications, online training, tutorials, and discussion groups to developers, IT managers and wireless infrastructure providers from more than 60 countries.
"The ongoing success of AnywhereYouGo.com is strong evidence that Open Source technology is more than capable of powering large-scale, mission-critical applications," stated Yancy Lind, president and CEO, Lutris Technologies. "We're extremely pleased that Enhydra is such an important part of this valuable resource to the global community of wireless application developers."
Due to the ever-changing requirements of the wireless application development community, AnywhereYouGo.com needed a highly flexible, scalable and easily maintainable technology infrastructure on which to build its site. Since wireless developers look to AnywhereYouGo.com to provide the most up-to-date information about the wireless industry, content on the site must be constantly updated. Enhydra's unique technology, Enhydra XMLCTM, effectively separates presentation logic from business logic, enabling changes to the "look and feel," or presentation layer, of AnywhereYouGo.com to be made without requiring additional Java coding in the business logic layer. Conversely, modifications in the business logic layer can be made without disrupting the interface. Thus, Enhydra XMLC greatly improves efficiency and allows for quick updates of news and resources for the dynamic community of wireless developers. Additionally, since Enhydra is an Open Source technology, AnywhereYouGo.com can modify the application's source code as needed, without waiting for additional product releases from a commercial software vendor.
"We evaluated a number of technologies, including operating systems and application servers, for AnywhereYouGo.com's infrastructure," explained Victor Brilon, a technology strategist at
AnywhereYouGo.com. "We discovered that we could best build what we needed to power our site by employing Open Source across the board. We're using Linux and the Enhydra application server, which is the heart of our Open Source Internet platform. Enhydra exceeded our expectations. It is an extremely robust, scalable solution that enables delivery of content to members of our community whenever they want it."
About AnywhereYouGo.com
AnywhereYouGo.com is the online resource that helps application developers speed the development of wireless applications, helps IT managers speed application deployment, and connects wireless infrastructure providers with target influencers and decision-makers around the world. AnywhereYouGo.com is also the largest independent community of developers of wireless applications. With coverage of the U.S. market from Dallas and the European market from London, AnywhereYouGo.com provides industry and product news, developer tools and resources, industry reports, directories of developers and applications, training and tutorials, and discussion groups covering wireless application protocol (WAP), Bluetooth, and Web clipping.
Enhydra Background
Developers in professional services at Lutris wrote the first version of the Enhydra program three years ago to provide customers with a scalable infrastructure for dynamic Web application development. After introducing it as an Open Source project 15 months ago, programmers and Web start-ups have contributed to its adoption by developing, testing, deploying, and refining the program through multiple releases. Lutris Technologies recently announced Lutris Enhydra 3.0, the first fully supported version of the application server (see release dated 3/27/00).
More than 20,000 copies of Open Source Enhydra have been downloaded since 1999, and the community benefits from more than 1,000 active participants. Open Source Enhydra is distributed by multiple OEMs and is supported and maintained at www.enhydra.org.
About Lutris Technologies
Lutris Technologies, a premier Open Source enterprise software and services company, is the original developer and primary sponsor of Enhydra (www.enhydra.org), the industry's leading Open Source JavaTM/XML application server. Lutris provides a forum and maintains the infrastructure for the Enhydra development community, a rapidly growing group of developers from around the world who have adopted Enhydra as the basis for a broad range of Internet projects and applications.
Lutris also is an Internet professional services company, providing strategy and development services to the Enhydra community and to Internet-savvy businesses. Clients range from entrepreneurs and companies launching new Web ventures to Fortune 500 IT organizations growing their business with an online presence. Investors include Chase Capital Partners, TransCosmos USA, and the Intel 64 Fund.
Lutris and Enhydra are registered trademarks of Lutris Technologies, Inc. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks belong to their respective holders.
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Contacts:
Susan Turner
Lutris Technologies
831 471 9753 x282
susan.turner@lutris.com
Robert Morton
PAN Communications
978 474 1900
rmorton@pancomm.com
Alan Penchansky
(for AnywhereYouGo.com)
The Pen Group
305 529-1944
alan@thepengroup.com
(Submitted by Renee Daniels of PAN Communications)
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