"I heard somewhere (can't remember where) that we are moving more and more to a web based system and that desktop applications are going out of fashion." << I've been hearing that for 10+ years now... still hasn't happened... What I think will happen is that you will see SOME apps go that way (SOA anyone? AaS?) but I don't think EVERYTHING will go that way... there are too many mission critical apps out there to risk it over the internet.

-tg