Microsoft cozies up with another open source company (SocialText)

If you've followed this blog, you know that I feel Microsoft's Sharepoint is the future of Microsoft's enterprise lock-in. Intriguingly, an open source company, SocialText, has joined forces with Microsoft to help them achieve that goal even faster. Ross and company are even providing an easy migration from JotSpot (acquired by Google), just in case you wanted to expedite the lock-in. :-)

Ross is a smart guy and understands that open source is still too young to be linking up solely with open source companies. Microsoft, for its part, recognizes the future, and so has partnered with SugarCRM, Zend, MySQL, and is undoubtedly working toward partnerships with others.

It's a good move. I'll feel bad when I put Sharepoint out of business, but maybe then Ross can come partner with my company. :-)