Partnering with Microsoft...honesty helps!

I met with Mondosoft the other day - great couple of guys and we had a good meeting. I hadn't realised I had left a lasting impression on Robert but I was really pleased to see that the approach the meeting took meant something to them:

https://blog.mondosoft.com/art-of-search/archive/2007/02/28/17.aspx

It's quite surprising to see and hear that many people are afraid of talking to Microsoft (especially in my line of work around HPC and Search) ironic as I am 5ft 2 on a good day :-) In reality you just have to have clear expectations about where you get value and where we get value - if as organisations we are very clear on the boundaries then things normally go fairly well - but this is all down to the people involved and mutual common understanding. I will post again this weekend about one that went wrong but ended up a brilliant success.

I took a further look at Robert's blog and liked his post on the long tail: Exploiting the long tail for search Look forward to seeing posts about MOSS 07 and how we work with Mondosoft to deliver taxonomy integration amongst other things..!!

Enjoy!