SharePoint / Office is overlooked by the developers you write about here. Office/Excel clientside => SharePoint "Office Server" serverside => then write apps i

SharePoint / Office is overlooked by the developers you write about here. Office/Excel clientside => SharePoint "Office Server" serverside => then write apps integrating with SharePoint. SharePoint is an application platform with Excel services on top of .Net. (so that multiple people at the same time can work on an Excel sheet via a web front-end) It is ment to make the step from local application to server application. It has auto import / workflows / api / taxonomy / search / etc ...