- Lutris Technologies
Lutris Technologies, Inc. was an enterprise software and services company based in
Santa Cruz, California . The company was privately held, with investors includingChase Capital Partners , Chase H&Q, TransCosmos USA, and the Intel 64 Fund. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_June_28/ai_63020205]Lutris was founded by ex-employees of The Santa Cruz Operation in or about 1995. The main business of the company was building bespoke high-end web sites using Java. To facilitate the design and implementation of these web sites, two general-purpose tools were developed:
XMLC and Enhydra.Enhydra was a Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE)
application server used on most Lutris-developed sites (including the flagshipCustomatix project). In January 1999 Lutris open-sourced Enhydra Server. [http://www.enhydra.org/]In October 1999, Lutris announced their intention to develop Enhydra Server v4 as an open-source enterprise-grade Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server (later to be known as Enhydra Enterprise). There was considerable press interest in whether this was compatible with Sun’s licensing model for J2EE, which was distributed under the
Sun Community Source License (SCSL).In March 2000, Lutris launched a commercial, boxed Enhydra Server product including support.
In April 2000, Lutris purchased
InstantDB (a Javadatabase management system distributed on a free-for-non-commercial-use basis) and announced their intent to open-source it.Enhydra Enterprise made its first beta release in April 2001. Shortly after that (June 2001) the InstantDB project was removed from enhydra.org, and Lutris announced that the InstantDB code would not after all be open-sourced.
The Enhydra Enterprise open source repository was shut down in September 2001, with Lutris management citing the J2EE SCSL conditions as the reason, which gave rise to a lot of bad feeling in the open source community.
Nearly all Lutris staff were laid off in waves from late 2001 to early 2002. The company appears to have been wound up some time later.
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