I'm not talking about the path to making money by swallowing The Red Pill and accepting a job at Microsoft. Instead, it's all about the path to Green, the Microsoft Business Solutions ERP-suite-on-steroids that is due out in the 2006+ timeframe. In the interim, Microsoft is working on a number of what it's calling "Surround Applications that are designed to supplement its core ERP products. One of these is the Navision VIP Web services repository technology. Other "Surround Apps" include MS CRM and the Microsoft Business Network, according to the company.