like the Koreans protesting against ban US beef imports I am protesting against the non inclusion of Open source Web 2.0 concepts within MOSS

Anyway I do think that the timing of release of Moss 2007 and impact of Web 2.0 has lot to do with MOSS 2007 success. Especially with rise in social networking sites on Web , an Internal social networking site for a company wasn't that far fetched an Idea and  MOSS helped bringing team collaboration and integration of various office components within a company as a reasonable possibility.

 Saying that, there still lies wide range of discrepancies with MOSS and Web 2.0 experience.The point that always is missed with MOSS development is the emergence of JavaScript and how Share point lacks these advanced UI presentation initiatives and rich Web Clients. Altough there has been a tremendous progress in terms of UI development when you take into account how SPS or WSS 2003 were, still it is not the same when it comes to comparing latest trends and MOSS initiatives. This results in distortion in end users web experience. A large part of the problem is its dependence on Microsoft's active x controls and convoluted Javascripts which have never been easy enough to understand.This also affects the large UI developers comminity who have been using these JavaScripts for different technologies like ROR, PHP and other sites, Even thought Silver light and other apps willdominate future UI development, as a developer I would like to see bridging gap between various Microsoft products and open source project atleast in terms of implementation and learning. Which brings to my next point of Secluded Microsoft Universe.  The important phenomena, with Web 2.0 technologies, has been the whole loosely coupled concept or SOA however you want to put it. I prefer Loosely coupled since it encompasses a broader range of concepts. This primarily has to do with introduction of rest api's and rest web services and allowing deep integration of various technologies and widget development. Accessing data hasn't been so much fun and so right for long (FLikr API's) , MOSS has no such component which embraces this mode of universal integration.

I am trying to persue my personal development in this direction and hope it is good starting point.

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