Starter Kits - http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/downloads/kits/default.aspx

Time Tracker Starter Kit
The Time Tracker Starter Kit demonstrates how to build a line-of-business ASP.NET application to track the time worked on projects.   

Reports Starter Kit
The Reports Starter Kit demonstrates a simple data reporting solution for displaying multiple views on data, creating charts, and rendering any type of data in a Web application.   

Community Starter Kit
The Community Starter Kit enables an individual or an ISP to quickly create a community Web site, such as a user group site, a developer resource site, or a news site.   

Commerce Starter Kit
The Commerce Starter Kit demonstrates an e-commerce storefront application complete with shopping cart, product catalog, and a Web service enabling order submissions.   

Portal Starter Kit
The ASP.NET Portal Starter Kit demonstrates how you can use ASP.NET and the .NET Framework to build a dynamic portal application. The ASP.NET Portal Starter Kit offers

DotNEtNuke - based on Portal Starter Kit above - 35,000 DotNetNuke Registered Users 

are used as a base to many (thousands?) existing commercial solutions - they are easy to adapt plus provide good documentation and online user support - it is MS answer to Open Source Software.

One port is at http://jitstore.net/ (in progress)

Components from the kits can be combined - here is sketch of one application - selling services and SW components on the Internet - all is digital.

• Combine auction/e-commerce to sell SW components - E-Bay with the Buy Now feature is de facto selling more products than auctioning.
• Create reverse auction - for bidding/offering contracts/services.
• Add collaboration features/newsgroup to the portal.
• Integrate PayPal - both for goods (components) and short term services.

Modular design - adding/selling custom components to the common base should have greater profit potential than developing shrink wrap solution. Using patterns and templates (future VisualStudio.NET) one should be able to customize and extend ours and others market solutions based on the starter kits.

The idea is to develop Small Business environment using MS SBS2003- to use in our business and then to market the components and programming services to others.

I think that direct business to business marketing/service/development is cost prohibitive - profit margins in Small Business in the present economy are very small. Ideal is to contract to large providers - Microsoft, HP - add on to their solutions and marketing efforts.

For Microsoft, HP etc. the SBS market is the last frontier to sell their products.

http://www.bcentral.com/articles/enbysk/172.asp

• Microsoft plans to invest more than $2 billion in research and development for the small and midsized business space in this fiscal year — far more than any other technology company.
• The company's latest version of Office — Microsoft Office 2003 — includes a small-business edition that features a new, customer contact-management system and, for the first time, the highly popular PowerPoint presentation tool. Both were features that small-business owners specifically requested.
• The latest version of Windows Small Business Server, for the first time, includes a standard edition for businesses that may not need all of the features included in its premium edition. The standard edition has an estimated retail price of $599.
• And last, but not least, the company now has a vice president focused specifically on small business worldwide. His name: Steven Guggenheimer, a 10-year Microsoft veteran

- where most of the ISVs are integrators - with little or no development expertise. We should fill this niche - MS Office 2003, SharePoint/Collaboration services, Portals, E-Commerce - based on the .NET development is extending/customizing the existent infrastructure.