Microsoft

Microsoft today announced that they purchased most of Teamprise. I do not know if this is good or bad but here are parts of the email customers received:

"We are pleased to announce that Microsoft Corporation has purchased most of the technology assets of Teamprise, a division of SourceGear. This purchase represents Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to interoperability and our dedication to enabling customers to achieve greater business results, regardless of their current platform and tooling. Microsoft intends to incorporate key Teamprise technologies into the Visual Studio family of products

Teamprise Customers with license rights for Teamprise products v3.x will receive a free upgrade offer to the Microsoft offering of the Teamprise-based technologies. Please visit the FAQ document online here for details about that offer.

Current Teamprise customers will continue to receive support for their Teamprise products from SourceGear; please consult with SourceGear as to the terms for their support. SourceGear is also making available additional seats of its Teamprise-branded product until our release, and any such additional seats will also be eligible for the upgrade to Microsoft’s product.

Microsoft is committed to the future of the Teamprise-based technology and will be incorporating these tools into the Visual Studio 2010 product family, with Microsoft’s release of the Teamprise-based technologies available around the same time as the Visual Studio 2010 launch.

Best Regards,

S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President, Developer Division, Microsoft Corporation"

When we look at the Microsoft web page for Teamprise (http://www.microsoft.com/pathways/teamprise/) my first worries seems to be stilled. Microsoft clearly states that they will continue support for OS X and Linux. This means that I can still use my Macbook Pro for accessing our company TFS without having to dual boot or start a virtual Windows machine. It also means that customers that I have will be able to continue development in their mixed environment. I hope that Microsoft will continue this support for a foreseeable future since I think this is a necessary thing in complex projects. I also hope that Microsoft will continue adding support for other platforms like the mainframe support I previously wrote about.

All in all I think this is good for us customers. Teamprise has done a great job with the product and I believe that Microsoft will continue this forward. I will keep this under surveilance and see what happens.