For those folks who, like me, may have missed the mid-September
announcement, Lutris claims that the J2EE license from Sun prevents them
from incorporating J2EE in an open-source solution.  The Enterprise version
is only offered as a purchasable product and they have no plans to offer a
new version of the open-source Enhydra software either.  See their release
at http://enterprise.enhydra.org/index.html.  If you like, you can read the
latest story about Lutris at Slashdot
(http://slashdot.org/articles/01/10/14/0018242.shtml).  There's also a good
link in the Slashdot article to a story about InstantDB and how Lutris
appears to have sucked in developers with the promise of open-sourcing the
database and then sent them packing (http://instantdb.tripod.com/).

Personally, I find a lot of validity in the argument that Lutris isn't worth
dealing with.  I think that it's time for CSY to certify Bluestone on the
3000.

Regards,

Adam Dorritie
Easy Does It Technologies LLC
http://www.editcorp.com
(702) 270-6402

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