I spent 18 months doing LiveWire development and it is pretty lame. I hit the wall of scripting languages' limitations quickly, and even though LiveWire in Enterprise Server 3 added a lot of stuff, it still sucks.For this reason I have dedicated a whole page on my personal site to describing why LiveWire sucks...
http://staff.westlake.com/jamie/software/livewire-sucks.shtml
-- Jamie Flournoy, August 19, 1998