Software in Business and Commerce
State of art Graphical User Interface (GUI) have been developed using Java and J2EE Technologies. The use of Object Oriented Development renders itself to many facets and flavors. Some of the standard approaches and development methodologies that have been used for developing applications are Agile, Waterfall to mention a few. The architecture on N-Tier System has provided the advantage of thin-clients for the user for performing operations on Corporate Data and the thin-client has become to be the mainstay in the GUI-world today. The ease of offering the look-and-feel from a single source and point-of-control has benefited the companies in maintenance and upgrade costs. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methodologies have been adopted at various customer sites to manage the legacy system interfaces and provide a flexible and extensible coupling and enterprise wide integration among applications.

Open Source as Stable Platform:
The work of many resourceful and talented software developers has paid off richly in the coming of Open Source for commerce and business activities. It has led to the evolution of standard frameworks on which many of the software development activities are positioned. The advantage of leveraging the Open Source is also the availability of skills in the market and a standardized way of adopting software frameworks for architecture and development of the software solution to businesses.

Distributed Computing:
Distributed Computing has been the core to leverage the power of running transaction in a distributed infrastructure, spread around in the Corporate . Using Object Oriented Technologies such Java/J2EE and Web Services in the technology implementation has been the flavors in the Object Oriented domain.

The Power of Databases:
When it comes to ‘persistence’ in data, the power of databases is unquestionable. The commercial platforms run on different platforms such as Oracle from Oracle Corporation, SQL Server from Microsoft Corporation, DB2 from IBM Corporation to state a few in the vendor space. There is also the trend to adopting MYSQL from the Open Source forum and some of the corporations are in the process of examining the security and industrial strength gradability in Open Source platforms.