Robert Peake has a new posting today with a look at the PHP Point of Sale system and how moving applications like that to the web makes more and more sense.

In any case, these kinds of systems seem like an excellent use of the trend toward browser-based applications, and especially shared applications with centralized data storage. I have also seen effective implementations of medical records management systems written entirely in PHP.

Web-native applications are coming evermore into the mainstream with applications like groupware and wikis, and software developers are starting to realize the tremendous flexibility and cost-savings associated with a web-native approach.

He also states that the PHP-GTK framework is severely underused, and could be quite useful for creating client-side, web-enabled versions of their PHP "counterparts" out on the corporate intranet...