What programming language to use?

[ablegreen]

Ya seems like most enterprise apps nowadays are on the web.

[slavik]

I agree.
Ideally running it off a web server and using PHP/CSS is going to be your guaranteed way for absolute cross platform.

If youre not able to do this java is absolutely the way to go. Dont mess with python and gtk, its just giong to make it hard to install your application on any windows machine. With java you'll just need the JRE (which most stations have) and youre good to go. Java isnt that slow, especially for your standard business application.

Yes, especially when 1 person uses IE6, secon IE7 and third is Firefox ... good luck with that

[runningwithscissors]

Python with PyGTK for the GUI library.

It's no fun making desktop apps with Java.

On the other hand, if you don't know any Python at all, I'd say you should start working with whatever you know best.

[Praill]

Yes, especially when 1 person uses IE6, secon IE7 and third is Firefox ... good luck with that

If you want to be a CSS nazi then ya... look out. Using a standard table layout with old school inline CSS is supported browser-wide since the dark ages though. Most business apps will take this approach to simply save time.