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Of course no office worker could miss this essential piece of software, Solitaire and its AJAX counter part. Actually it just 100% javascript, but kind of relates. See it here:

http://sysbotz.com/articles/solitaire.htm

Some slashdotters have already identified this technique of using a combination of using javascript, xml, and dhtml has been around for some time (the article even says its mature). It has been refferred to in the past as javascript remoting or dhtml depending on what your talking about. I work for a company with a web database app that uses a similar technique. Our product, Sysbotz Enterprise has been in development about a year now which show you the age here.

I think the big deal here is not some much the technique or the new label they are giving it (ajax). Rather a educational effort to inform developers to thing past the traditional load page, post form, process, return results back to web browser concept of web apps. The web app needs to broaden its abilities and needs to be more interactive which greatly limits its uses.

Well if you go the php/mysql route you might take a look at Sysbotz Enterprise Platform. Its a php program that uses xml files to define forms and allows you to plug in php script to accomplish additional tasks. It also features a report engine which also takes xml files and creates pdf documents out of them.

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However, I've got to give you guys props for putting up this page:

http://www.sysbotz.com/articles.htm

You're selling a solution that requires some technical know-how by your clients. Rather than leaving them to Google themselves to death for basic steps on how to get from point A to point B, you've given them a good hand to set things up. Obviously, this is not only good for the clients, but helps you by making it that much easier for your clients to consider buying your product. Smart thinking!

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SimpleData CRM/ERP business software. Works on IE and Netscape, and runs on open-source amp (apache mysql php) platform. I work for this company and we have already over a 100 company sites using it.

I actually left a good job for personal reasons (What? I know, I loved that job, but I wanted to move closer to my family). I moved to a new area and couldn't find Tech work there at all (Pennsylvania). So I started a business with my own savings called Sysbotz and it takes time to get a viable software business going. Like some one mentioned before its not always what you think that will sell, but what the customer thinks. The major tip I could give is to listen to the customer, that includes checking up on how there doing, seeing if they see anything that needs improvements. Like what was mentioned before too, it may take a few months of not making anything before you see anything, so plan for this too. Open source projects are a great starting point too and could use the help, if you see a viable open source project why not contribute some of you new found spare time and offer business services around it.

I work and develope for this company, but we make a program called 'Systems Panel' that pretty much fits your requirements. It also has the ability to centralize IT links, downloads, and technical article.

Another idea maybe to have a program that compares md5 checksums between a number of computer systems on a network instead. Considering most people will deploy the same OS and alot of the same version binaries across a bunch of there servers, couldn't the network as a whole be used as reference instead of a database?

I'm actually thinking of adding this ability to my current software project Pushchange.