There are so many application development environments available it makes selecting the right tools for a job very difficult indeed. Interaxsys can help you select the correct environment for your requirements.
Today's computers are very fast....unless you have very specific requirements that requires huge processing capabilities, it is more likely that any performance will be constrained by network capacity and connections together with the performance of database and web servers. The long and the short of it is that the humble desktop PC is no longer the bottle neck and application performance should not be an issue.