What impresses potential clients touring your office more than anything? A big screen displaying realtime performance data for your critical servers. I'm joking, but only partially: it makes a company look professional and it's also a huge boon for network operations employees who can tell within seconds if something is wrong with a server. An ideal presentation medium for this is obviously a web page, since you can implement multiple versions of this performance data display for network operations or even for people wishing to check on the status of a server over their phone or PDA and also drive automatic updating of that data. There are s..
