The author tries to paint Mongo as an embarrassingly short-sighted, pseudo-enterprise company that can't share its toys with others. Mongo could refuse this by

The author tries to paint Mongo as an embarrassingly short-sighted, pseudo-enterprise company that can't share its toys with others. Mongo could refuse this by demonstrating collaboration efforts and solutions with a solution marketplace similar Atlasssian and VMware. On the partner side, cross-selling, cross promotions and collaborative sales/product strategies can reduce conflict and wasted/duplicated/unaligned effort that can lead to sour partner experiences.