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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