Yesterday's announcement that the SocialText wiki will now run under Microsoft Sharepoint really surprised me. Ross Mayfield, the CEO of SocialText is a Wikipedia kind of guy (literally and figuratively), thus this is an interesting alliance:
The fact that Sharepoint 2007 will include both Microsoft blogging and wiki software, makes this even more unusual. I need to grok this, and don't.
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Update on November 3rd:
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Open Source and Microsoft seems to be a contradiction of terms. However, I may be wrong. Here is a conversation between Ross Mayfield (CEO of SocialText) and Sam Ranji (Microsoft) on this very same issue.
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