How 'open' changes products
'Open' products work a bit more like Ikea—you have all the right pieces and instructions but you have to make something out of it—a table or chair or whatever it may be. Ikea products are toolkits to make things. When we’re talking about software most buyers are thinking about what they get out of the box, so a toolkit is not a product to our consumers.
Open Atrium is a product that Phase2 produces and people say often that it is like "an intranet in a box." But, in reality it’s a toolkit. People use it a lot of different ways—some do what you’d expect them to do, others use it completely differently. This is the great thing about open source, but this causes a problem for the open source community. Karen says, "The very thing that makes open source awesome is what makes our product hard to define."
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