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I have talked quite a bit about the amount of money I invested in nCompass both before and after Microsoft Purchased it, turned it into Microsoft CMS, which I saw as, along with Microsoft CMS, the platform system that microsoft needed to compete in the application market in the middle tier. But, the envy of the office team, and their fascination with Sharepoint forced a bullet to be put into Microsoft CMS, and then foolishly killed it.

A very smart couple of very pragmatic guys picked up on the market opportunity and right now, they have what nCompass/Microsoft CMS should have been, and what Sharepoint never can be: the best .NET platform available.

Microsoft ceded the app platform business to Oracle and IBM and open source leaving a career problem staring into the face of .NET developers, as potential candidates for COBOL level extinction.

I’m not really a supporter of using Microsoft technology any longer for web development, until ASP, JS, PHP, and Python become are added to the core of Visual Studio, and Microsoft puts out a dedicated web server (if ever). Given the (terrible) quality of most IDE’s, and the problem debugging code on these platforms by comparison it doesn’t make sense.

Maybe, someday, when there has been enough of a shakeup, someone in redmond will understand that this company is worth to Microsoft easily 10x revenues, if not higher.

‘Cause if someone (we know who) adds a windows emulator to their OS and sells cheap high quality desktops, and IBM, Oracle and Open source continue to squeeze Microsoft in the middle, the empire of RENT SEEKING on the NETWORK EFFECT of Windows that is the Redmond campus, will find itself without the ability to play IBM and retreat into ‘the money’. Left behind by gaming platforms. Left behind by phones. Left behind by tablets.

Microsoft is a vast rent-seeker on the pc platform. And eventually the market punishes companies that hubris.

SITECORE is one of the obvious ways back into credibility. Sitecore, CMS, Dynamics, .NET, and script friendly changes to the OS.