I'd be surprised if they are trying to compete with these. This is targeted at a different audience. Often this is part of a .NET application migration where a

I'd be surprised if they are trying to compete with these. This is targeted at a different audience. Often this is part of a .NET application migration where a company is comfortable with Microsoft-originated open source, but still uncomfortable with regular open source (even though we are aware of the pedigree of nginx.) Going further, it can be customized from .NET and shipped as part of the app which may be using nginx for some proxy features.