BuddyPress.org

I have a little web site that I started with WordPress, and I’m doing nothing with it. However,I like WordPress after trying Drupal and Joomla and something else. At my day job, I built our company’s intranet in ASP.Net which a windows server was the only option I had to work with. I’ve hacked together a functional intranet, but it is kind of clunky for admins to add news items or business related posts. And since Windows servers has now become rather friendly to PHP, I thought I would set up WordPress to do the blogging/news posting/communication part of the intranet, and keep doing business forms in ASP.Net.

A couple of issues I have that I have not resolved in general terns of how to do it is the company directory and letting users/employees post to certain areas of the site. I built a company directory in ASP.Net and some Administration pages for it. But, I found BuddyPress and thought this might be a way to manage employee/users and their directory information and give employees social capabilities.

My question is does adding BuddyPress to a WordPress site kill off the blogging abilities of WP? Or, How do these two things work together? Also, does anyone know how I could replace my current ASP.Net/MySQL directory with BuddyPress as far as users looking to find a particular person and seeing their profile/info? Is their a directory like plugin?

Thanks