Little/no commentary from me here, but seeing as the post seems to have generated a lot of comments so far it's probably worth a read. Check out
this article over at Edbrill.com and see what you think.
I'm interested in comments/thoughts, although one thing I will say, is that Wild Bill is bang on the money with comment 22:
@11. Heartily agree. Come on IBM - hire a bunch of template developers and offer a visually similar and functionally complete version of all the base sharepoint apps.. Just because it'd be far easier.
And then of course have them as "open source". Oh - and have them import data from the Shareport repositories in a complete fashion. Seriously.
Come on. You know it makes sense.