Microsoft has a lot of history building platforms for novices to produce functional systems. This one seems to be going in an open source direction, and buildi

Microsoft has a lot of history building platforms for novices to produce functional systems. This one seems to be going in an open source direction, and building upon web standards. This gives it a much better chance of success. Obviously it requires investment, and there is no certainty of success. But even just a carbon copy of an existing project like Access 365, but an open source version that targets the web would be very useful. Especially if it could be extended with .NET and put into version control. Although there are competitors in that space. Reimagining the entire Rapid Application Development model is riskier for sure.