Lockheed Goes Open Source. Blankenhorn Hates It.

"I was really pleased to read the announcement that Lockheed Martin's social networking platform, EurekaStreams, was released as an open source project today. Lockheed is a very conservative company, and while they're happy to use open source internally and on projects for their customers, this is their first experiment with actually running a project themselves. I think it's a big deal, not just for Lockheed Martin, but for large corporations who are considering a more open, more innovative approach to software development. And yet, Dana Blankenhorn hates it:

"I don't see anything in Eureka Streams I can't do in Drupal, or a number of other high-quality open source projects that have existed for years. Lockheed has reinvented the wheel — why?"

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