Blah wrote:

There must be hundreds of identical webcam applications out there -
every cam comes with its own - and then hundreds of apps like the above.
Why? Surely there are only so many things you can do with captured image
- store, ftp, http, email etc - why are people still bothering to write
new ones! Doh.

Well, if you're serious about it there's only one real choice, Axis
webcams which have an integrated Linux server and network connections.
Not cheap, but very good and available in PTZ weatherproof enclosures.