Lockheed Drops Open Source Bomb

August 2, 2010

Used to creating explosions itself, one company is helping make a big bang in the open source world. Lockheed Martin, America’s biggest defense contractor, recently unveiled its own company-based open source social media program, Eureka Streams. eWeek broke the story in its article, “Lockheed Martin Launches Open-Source Social Networking Project,” Lockheed built Eureka Streams, hoping to create something that, “represents a new communication experience for knowledge workers, empowering them to pick and choose the channels of news, information and conversation.” The most impressive part of the entire project is its use of open source technology: “our framework is written in Java and is based on open source projects such as GWT, Hibernate, Spring, and Lucene, to name a few,” one designer said. Seeing the big boys embrace open source technology is a major bump in visibility and vitality for these explosive programs.

Pat Roland, August 2, 2010

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Enterprise, News, Open source, Search, Social, Technology

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