Given that you say "What we need to do is not very complicated -- something comparable to a simple VB app on Windows." I'm inclined to suggest that you avoid the larger-scale systems. In particular, I'd eschew anything involving either C++ or Java. Why buy into a compile-test-debug-compile cycle if you don't need to? I'd suggest instead picking up something that yokes together an *interpreted* programming/scripting language like python, perl, ruby, or tcl together with a toolkit that's easy for you to live with. Me, I mostly use Tk, and I have friends who use wxWidgets (mostly with Python). I think Gtk would be good, too. I like KDE better than Gnome, but I haven't seen any nice scripting interface to KDE/Qt, so would recommend against it (perl libraries seem > 0.5 busted). Seems to me that you should be able to demand a solution where if your program doesn't work properly the first time, you can just tweak it on-line until it does. Cheers, R _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list