RocketDMS is an interesting PHP-GTK based DMS implementation for windows. The software provide a multi-user system with the ability to work simultaneously with the same document.

RocketDMS include a lot of interesting features mainly :

• Physical locations and items can be indexed and searched
• Scan directly into RocketDMS
• MySQL/MSSQL Compatible
• Subversion Compatible
• Support Windows XP and Vista
• Local area, Wide area and Internet compatible
• Documents can be given searchable tags and full text indexed
• Off-line Documents usage
• Collaboration enabled and multi-user system

We asked Miked Bennett, Managing Director Pikaia Ltd, about the choice of PHP-GTK for RocketDMS :

"Many reasons but primarily because: PHP is mature, high level and cross-platform and I am familiar with it. GTK 2 has a wonderful set of widgets, is relatively easy to use and is very stable. I have a lot of libraries and work from over the years that is immediately re-usable in building GUI programs.

I wanted to convert some proof-of-concept ideas that I had done into a commercial product as quickly and easily as possible. I wanted the modification<->test cycle to be as quick as possible and being able to run the completed app fully interpreted lets me do that. Time-consuming compiling and packaging is only required for a release. Apart from some proprietary win-only platforms there seems to be nothing else that comes close."