I have upcoming a couple of sites that will need to be dynamic.  This is bucking the recent trend as things have been more or less 100% html and very happy I was too.  Dynamic is all very well and good but I am not a code-wrangler by choice.
This is one of the hassles I have with PHPWS still - the update system is still very "techie", by which I mean functional if you know how its done but totally lacking in finesse.  

You need to download the data, fire up the FTP client and then install.  A core update can over to an hour to "up" to the server - God forbid I had ten sites to do.  And all the modules not in the core update are a seperate issue.  Brain damage or what.  Fine if I have all day to tweak my pride and on-line joy but a buttache otherwise,  They really need to "one click" this and soon.  I don't want to terrify punters with the website equivalent of something functional but smothered with duck tape, dymo labels and wants a pocket full of screwdrivers to tweak into a semblance of functionality - smooth sells, smooth like Joomla CMS which was a pain to work with in comparison to old PHPWS (now defunct) but undeniably looks the part.

Still - I needed a shopping cart that supported PayPal and a listings system for property rentals.  Old PHPWS, no worries.  New?  In the immortal words of Captain Jack Sparrow, "bugger!"
Suddenly I find myself confronted by the modules I probably need - Vshop and Vlist - that I hope to tweak into obedience.
By the looks of things the shop at least is pretty much plug and play, the list mod I´ll have to mess with some first.

All to the good, as love affair with html or no, anything is the better for an occasional change.