Multiple forces are altering the landscape of application development. The PC revolution continues to make ever more powerful computers available at ever-lower costs: while the Internet is enabling global information sharing.

In business, global competition and the increased pace of change demand rapid deployment of highly adaptable systems. The organizational boundaries that have traditionally constrained applications are giving way to opportunities inherent in electronic commerce and networked operations. Today, the geography of an application can extend far beyond an organization’s boundaries, literally into consumers’ homes. It is possible to think of an Internet application needing to handle literally millions of users - a scale difficult to imagine a few years ago.

Most companies have not taken the full advantage of multi-tiered (n-Tier) architectures. The guiding principles of distributed multi-tiered architectures like J2EE, .NET and Windows DNA are Web computing, faster time to market, true interoperability, scalability, reduced complexity, language tools, hardware independence and lower cost of ownership.

For the distributed applications development, Aeturnum employs component technologies like COM, DCOM, Enterprise Java Beans, RMI, CORBA and UML.