Lutris Enhydra Wireless First Application Server To Address The Global Requirements Of Mobile Computing
Oct 16th, 20:08 UTC
Enhydra XMLC and next-generation protocol support guarantees application delivery to any analog, WAP, i-mode, or J2ME cellular device WIRELESS IT 2000, SANTA CLARA, CALIF. - October 16, 2000 - Lutris Technologies Inc., the leading Open Source enterprise software and services company, today announced Lutris Enhydra Wireless, the latest product in Lutris' family of certified and supported Open Source Enhydra Java/XML application servers. Lutris Enhydra Wireless offers developers, systems integrators and corporate IT departments the ability to develop a single internet application that delivers content to any device, in any geographic region, by supporting every major wireless protocol: i-mode, WAP, J2ME, and VoiceXML.
"Supporting the protocols that make targeting every device possible is only the beginning. What Lutris Enhydra Wireless delivers to our customers and ISV partners is the ability to seamlessly deploy one application that is accessible by all of their customers, regardless of their Internet device or geographic location," said Yancy Lind, president and CEO, Lutris Technologies. "Through the power of Open Source, Lutris Enhydra Wireless benefits from a worldwide community of developers with local wireless expertise, and thus guarantees the ability to deploy global applications."
Lutris Enhydra Wireless provides developers with the first development platform specifically designed to deliver content to wireless and wired devices including phones, PDAs, handheld computers, desktops and laptops. Further, unlike other application servers that require a unique code-base for each device that will access the application, Lutris Enhydra Wireless leverages Enhydra XMLC, a technology developed by Lutris, to effectively separate the business logic from the presentation layer, enabling a single application to deliver content to any number of devices. This "one-to-many" approach significantly decreases time to market and dramatically improves application manageability. Additionally, this extensible XML architecture ensures that future wireless devices that depend on new presentation technologies can be easily added to the application with minimal impact.
"Wireless technology adds yet another level of complexity to the deployment environments that today's application developers must support. A lack of standards means that applications targeted at wireless devices must support multiple protocols. To ease the burden on the developer Lutris is taking their support one step further, beyond just supporting all the available wireless protocols," said Tracy Corbo, senior analyst, The Hurwitz Group. "In addition, Lutris is using XML to separate business and presentation logic making their wireless applications more flexible. This enables developers to focus on writing applications without worrying about the wireless protocol du jour."
To ensure that developers using Lutris Enhydra Wireless have the technologies needed to meet the new demands of wireless development, and to address the absence of a global wireless standard, Lutris has included support for a variety of leading presentation protocols. These include HTML, WML, cHTML, XHTML-Basic, VoiceXML and the new J2ME/MIDp protocols required for the emerging Java phones. In addition, Lutris has bundled emulators for many of the leading mobile phones, empowering developers to see how the applications they have built will appear on the phone's screen at run time. To aid in development and deployment, the product also includes PostgresSQL 7, JBuilder Foundation, Forte for Java Community Edition and comprehensive wireless sample applications and source code.
Pricing and Availability
Lutris Enhydra Wireless will be generally available in December 2000. Pricing for the product is still under consideration, and will include options for selected training and support packages.
About Lutris Technologies
Lutris Technologies, a leading Open Source enterprise software and services company, is the original developer and primary sponsor of Enhydra, a leading Open Source Internet application server supporting Java, XML, and wireless technologies. Lutris offers a full range of support services and technical training to Lutris Enhydra customers and provides complete Internet consulting services, including 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. Additional information about Lutris products and services is available at www.lutris.com.
Contacts: Susan Turner Robert Morton
Lutris Technologies PAN Communications
831 471 9753 x282 978 474 1900
susan.turner@lutris.com lutris@pancomm.com
(Submitted by Renee Daniels of PAN Communications)
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