If you want a stand alone application - write a stand alone application, Tk would provide an adequate UI. Get ready to waste lots of time installing it and keeping it upgraded, however. A better route would be a networked application, where a central server does the majority of the computing and the clients provide the UI.

If you want a networked application, you will have to do the socket connections yourself (be sure and take a gander at CPAN first - lots of wheels ready to roll). You will need to write a server program that runs on a central box in your network, and you will need to write the client program to talk to the server on a designated port. Then you install the clients as needed on the other boxes in your network (of course, now you are back to having to maintain upgrades).

But why do that when it has already been written. It's called HTTPD!

So, what i am getting at is that you are trying to solve the problem with a purple banana - wrong solution! What you need is to beef up the server - either with hardware or by switching from plain-jane CGI to mod_perl.

The former is easier, but the later is cheaper (free!) and worth the trouble in the long run.

Jeff

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