Web based applications

I was a big fan of web-based applications for a variety of reasons, till I saw a few hosted on my local intranet. These applications are the slowest apps that I have seen till date. This includes a few main-frame apps that I had seen way back in 1998.

Everybody wants them to be faster, but nobody has the budget to get them rewritten. Each succeeding patch seems to be succeeding in further slowing down the app.