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Jfokus 2010 - The Biggest Java Conference in Sweden
IT Mill will present Vaadin at Jfokus on January 27th, 2010.  Come and see how Java-only web applications are built with Vaadin at our booth #14. Also, don't miss the presentation by Joonas Lehtinen on "RIA Security - Broken by Design": "Rich Internet Applications (RIA) provide desktop-like usability with web deployment model. The benefits of this...
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Season's Greetings from IT Mill
Year 2009 has been a very good year for Vaadin. The community is booming and new Vaadin applications are appearing all the time. We will continue to make Vaadin even better in 2010. There will be new very interesting features and the support for third-party components has already been taken to the next level by the Vaadin 6.2 release. Have a happy holiday and a merry Christmas. See you again in...
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Liferay and Vaadin Announce New Partnership
Open Source technology leaders collaborate to provide enterprises richer user experience. Los Angeles, CA – October, 13, 2009 – Liferay, Inc., provider of leading open source enterprise portal and collaboration software, and IT Mill Ltd., provider of the Vaadin rich user interface library, recently announced a new technology partnership. The collaboration will simplify and...
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In Press Open Source Changes Everything
Fakta writes: Open Source changes IT companies' business model and has a profound impact on their marketing and management as well. "Businesses can operate profitably by developing commercial products and services based on their own free open source products", IT Mill CEO, Joonas Lehtinen explains in Fakta-magazine. "It would be very expensive to achieve this kind of business...
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IT Mill wins Ride Your Bicycle to Work 2009 Competition
IT Mill has won this year's 'Ride Your Bicycle to Work' Competition series for 21-100 employees! The competition was held for the 12th time between May 11-18 for the 12th time. It was arranged by Valonia Service Centre for sustainable development and energy in Southwest Finland. The goal for the competition is that people leave their cars at home and commute bicycling, jogging,...
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Vaadin 6 Server-Driven RIA Framework Announced - the Next Generation of IT Mill Toolkit
IT Mill announces the release of Vaadin 6, a major revision of its server-driven RIA framework formerly known as IT Mill Toolkit. In addition to many enhancements and fixes, the release includes two entirely new tools: an Eclipse plugin and a preview version of a WYSIWYG user interface editor. The release of Vaadin 6 comes just months after the first stable version of IT Mill...
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Upcoming Event Breakfast Seminar on June 11th
You are most welcome to attend the ITViikko breakfast seminar IT Mill will be hosting on June 11th! The main theme of the seminar is rich web user interfaces, usability and the new era of user friendly enterprise applications. The city of Lahti's Fenix-project on electronic services will be presented. Another interesting theme of the seminar is Open Source: Michael ...
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ICT Award to IT Mill
  IT Mill has received Turku Chamber of Commerce's annual ICT Award. According to the ICT Committee of the chamber IT Mill has proven that it is possible to combine open source products and traditional business in a well working and feasible way. The committee considers IT Mill as an excellent and inspring role model for other innovative software companies. The company's high...
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Upcoming Event Codecamp at Tampere University of Technology May 18-22
The Department of  Software Systems at Tampere University of Technology is organizing a codecamp event this spring. The codecamp is an intensive learn-by-doing course, which focuses on the development of small-scale Open Source web applications. IT Mill Toolkit for Web services is the chosen development platform this year. The codecamp will take place week 21 starting on May 18th...
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Upcoming Event JavaOne in San Francisco June 2-5
Join IT Mill at the JavaOne conference where IT Mill is one of the exhibitors . The conference will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on June 2nd-5th. This year's Conference will have one of the deepest curriculum programs yet. With more than 1,300 submissions, you can choose from avariety of tracks, labs, and BOFs that will enhance your skill set, help you...
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In Press IT Mill's Key Account Manager Fredrik Rönnlund
    IT Mill's new Key Account Manager, Fredrik Rönnlund was interviewed in Turun Sanomat . "IT Mill is a unique career opportunity for me. IT Mill Toolkit -technology is impressive and cost effective. It is unrivalled in the whole world" Mr Rönnlund says. "The company has been growing very rapidly and the growth continues in 2009. Now it's time to expand to other...
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In News "More secure RIAs with Server Driven Solutions"
IT Mill Project Manager, Sami Ekblad and CEO Joonas Lehtinen warn about the security issues in browser based RIAs IT Mill CEO Joonas Lehtinen was interviewed  about security issues in RIAs or rich internet applications in IT Viikko . "When thinking about the increasingly critical web systems today, it is common that a major part of the application is executed in the web...
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Upcoming Event Jazoon09 in Zurich June 23-25
  Join IT Mill at Jazoon 09                                                                in Zurich on June 23rd-25th where you' ll have the chance to visit IT Mill's booth and discuss with IT Mill's...
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Server-driven Rich Web Applications in Pure Java - IT Mill Toolkit 5.3.0 Now Ready for Production
After over a year in beta and some 1500 fixed issues, IT Mill Toolkit 5.3.0 is finally ready to provide a stable base for building rich web user interfaces for demanding web applications. The open source development tools for Windows, Mac and Linux are available for immediate download at the company website www.itmill.com. "After developing this technology since year 2000, I believe...
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Upcoming Event SDC2009 in Göteborg March 24
Join IT Mill at Scandinavian Development Conference 2009 in Göteborg on March 24th where IT Mill is a bronze partner. Make sure you won't miss Sami Ekblad's tutorial to "Rich web applications in plain Java without plugins or JavaScript " the following day, March 25th. This in-depth open-source workshop will be 50% hands-on, 50% lecture and covers the following topics ...
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IT Mill into Partner Agreement with CodeCraft - IT Mill RIA Technology to SaaS Applications
IT Mill and CodeCraft have closed a partner agreement. With this agreement CodeCraft is authorized to  act as an independant, nonexlusive distributor and seller of IT Mill's products and consulting services in Finland. "We at IT Mill were convinced by CodeCraft's expertize and burning interest in our IT Mill Toolkit technology", Mr Ville Ingman, IT Mill technical sales manager...
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Upcoming Event Javaforum in Malmö Feb 10
Join IT Mill at the Javaforum meeting in Malmö on February 10th where IT Mill CEO Joonas Lehtinen is giving a presentation on Rich web applications in plain Java without plugins or JavaScript. Javaforum is a Swedish developer community and an official Java User Group (jug) with premier purpose is to support Swedish developers. Contact IT Mill to find out more or join us at...
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Upcoming Event ICT KAMPUS 2009 Feb 4
Please join IT Mill at ICT Kampus 2009 Career Event in Turku on February 4th, 2009. You'll hear what kind of a company IT Mill is. We'll tell you about different career opportunities at IT Mill and who knows- maybe you'll find yourself at our Turku or Salo office, working in a great and passionate team, learning new things every day. More information about the event is found here...
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In Press Added Value through Creative Leadership
IT Mill CEO Joonas Lehtinen was interviewed in Turun Sanomat 's Talous or Economy attachment today. The subject of the article was creative leadership. In the article Mr Lehtinen describes how IT Mill has has taken advantage of new and creative ways of doing things. One of the latest ideas at IT Mill is Community Friday or CF. CF means that all the employees have the right to use some of their...
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Upcoming Event Jfokus 2009 Jan 27-28
Join IT Mill at the Jfokus conference in Stockholm on January 27th-28th where IT Mill is one of the partners . Jfokus is the largest annual conference for everyone who works with Java in Sweden. The conference is arranged by Javaforum Stockholm. Javaforum is a Swedish developer community and an official Java User Group (jug) with premier purpose is to support Swedish developers. ...
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High Alfa Rating Classification to IT Mill by Suomen Asiakastieto
IT Mill has achieved a high Rating Alfa Classification by Suomen Asiakastieto. "The Strongest in Finland 2009" or "Suomen Vahvimmat 2009" certification is only achieved by every tenth company in Finland. Read more about the certificate by clicking it.                                  ...
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Season's Greetings
This year IT Mill Ltd has donated all the funds previously allocated to Christmas cards and greetings to Angola where a school is being built in Muwewe. The construction work is coordinated by FinnChrurchAid. Read more about the project here (in Finnish). Please note that you can contact us also during this holiday season as many of us are working. Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year! ...
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IT Mill Chairman of the Board, Kimmo Rasila and Board Member Michael Widenius among TIVI's 100 Most Influential list
Tietoviikko i.e. Tivi has chosen the 100 most influential ICT professionals in Finland this year. Kimmo Rasila, IT Mill chairman of the board and Michael "Monty" Widenius, member of the board are both found in the list. The annual list is found in today's, December 12th, 2008, issue of Tietoviikko and later at www.tivi.fi . Tietoviikko is one of the leading news...
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Upcoming Event Codecamp at TKK Nov 24-27
This winter the Data Communications Software major at Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Helsinki University of Technology TKK is organizing a codecamp event. The codecamp is an intensive course, which focuses on the development of small-scale Open Source applications on a given platform.   IT Mill Toolkit for Web services is the chosen development platform this...
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Upcoming Event Oredev Nov 17-21
Join IT Mill at the Øredev conference in Malmö on November 17th-21st. You'll be able to participate in a hands on workshop on Client- vs. server-side RIA security and listen to a short and eloquent Lightning talk: Server-side Java - the perfect platform for rich internet applications. IT Mill is sponsoring this year’s Øredev conference. The conference will build on the quality of...
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Upcoming Event W-JAX Nov 3-7
Join IT Mill at W-JAX in Munich in November, where we will be sharing our expertize in Client- vs. server-side RIA security and sponsoring the event. Mr. Joonas Lehtinen, PhD gives a session "Client- vs. server-side RIA security" at 05.11.2008 , 15:00 - 16:00 Full Session Info Track Info W-JAX is a conference for complex know-how within the Web and Enterprise environment. It...
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Upcoming Event eBusiness Forum Nov 5-6
Join IT Mill at TIEKE's eBusiness Forum seminar in Turku, where we will be sharing our expertize in Client- vs. server-side RIA security. Get yourself up-to-date information on this important subject and come and listen Sami Ekblad's presentation on November 6th. More information about the seminar, its programme and registration details are found at Tieke's website (in Finnish). ...
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In Press RIAs with Ease
"All business applications will be linked to RIA-development (Rich Internet Application) in the future" Joonas Lehtinen, IT Mill CEO, says in Tietoviikko magazine's article on RIAs. "It is now possible to create imposing and visually intensive applications with RIA-technology" he continues. Improved developer productivity, security and usability are the key words....
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Michael "Monty" Widenius investing in Finnish IT Mill
Following in the footsteps of billion-dollar company MySQL      One of the founders of MySQL and a global guru of the open source code, Widenius is investing in Finnish IT Mill. MySQL was sold to Sun Microsystems last January for one billion dollars. IT Mill is intended to be a success story built on the open source code, following the formula of Finland’s Widenius. ...
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New Appointments at IT Mill
In order to serve our clients even better we have strengtened our organization as follows: Mr Henri Muurimaa (M.Sc.) has been appointed as Services Manager . He is in charge of IT Mill's service sector as a whole. Mr Muurimaa has earlier worked as a project manager and software developer at IT Mill, Mooms Solutions Ltd and Teleste Corporation. Mr Johannes Tuikkala (M.Sc.) has beed...
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In Press IT Mill Aims at Continuous and Fast Growth
IT Mill was featured in Kauppalehti Optio , the leading business magazine in Finland on August 14th. "There is a global market for our IT Mill Toolkit web user interface products. The company has grown rapidly and will continue to do so" Joonas Lehtinen, IT Mill CEO describes the situation. "We invest a lot in research and development in order to create even better...
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IT Mill Expands New Sales Office in Stockholm
IT Mill has opened a sales office in Stockholm in order to better serve the company's Swedish clients and help them utilize IT Mill Toolkit RIA user interface technology to the fullest. The operational mode is the same as in Finland. Proven open source products make the basis of the operations. In addition to them IT Mill offers various commercial products as well as support services.  ...
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Logica Opts for IT Mill's RIA Programming Tool
Co-operation continues to expand Logica opts for IT Mill’s RIA programming tool Logica’s communal services business unit for the whole of Finland is renewing its web application interfaces to utilize IT Mill’s RIA and Ajax technologies . In this way product development is enhanced and the usability and data security of applications improved. In...
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IT Mill CEO Joonas Lehtinen's profile in SWBusiness
IT Mill aims to develop the world's best development tool for browser user interfaces. It sees information security as one of the product's strongest points. The goal set by IT Mill and company CEO Joonas Lehtinen is to be the world's best in browser interface software development. The company is purely a technology provider and is, according to Lehtinen, the only company in...
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Welcome to our Breakfast Seminar on June 5th
You are most welcome to attend the ITViikko breakfast seminar IT Mill will be hosting together with Uoma ! The main theme of the seminar is rich web user interfaces and the new era of user friendly enterprise applications. You'll be able to learn from interesting case stories by Ekahau and Logica Suomi . The event will take place at  Sanomatalo...
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IT Mill to exhibit at JavaOne on May 6-8
IT Mill is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting at the upcoming JavaOne Conference on May 6, 7 & 8, 2008. JavaOne, globally the most important event concentrating on Java technology, will take place at The Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. This year’s JavaOne conference features rich Internet applications, open source, compatibility and interoperability,...
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Welcome to our Breakfast Seminar on April 24th
IT Mill, Jab and Softera will host a breakfast seminar in Turku on the 24th of April. In case you wonder whether to concentrate on architecture, agile approach or better user interfaces  the choice is easy - it is now possible to get them all! Come and listen how! The seminar program and the registration details are found below (in Finnish). Hope to see you next Thursday!  ...
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Open source in mobile World - IT Mill CEO Joonas Lehtinen at MobileMonday Helsinki
MobileMonday Helsinki will take a look at the mobile open source community in its April meeting at Molly Malone's downtown Helsinki.Finland has a very strong open source community and well developed business practices in the mobile environment. Finland has a very strong open source community and well developed business practices in the mobile environment. MobileMonday Helsinki will...
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Software Testing Day at TUT
Tampere University of Technology and Pitky ry organize a software testing event on March 25-26, 2008 (Tuesday-Wednesday). Concurrently with the seminar, there is test tool exhibition where IT Mill presents IT Mill Testing Tools . More information: http://www.cs.tut.fi/tapahtumat/testaus08/ 
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IT Mill Testing Tools - The Easiest Browser Based Recording And Test Environment
New York City, New York - AjaxWorld - March 18, 2008 - IT Mill, one of the leading experts on RIA (Rich Internet Applications), today announced a new set of tools for web application testing. With IT Mill Testing Tools the testing and quality assurance (QA) of web applications is easier than ever. New functional tests can be created and automated without any programming knowledge, using a...
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OpenAjax Alliance Announces New Initiatives Around Secure Mashups and Mobile Device APIs
In conjunction with the AJAXWorld Conference and Expo , OpenAjax Alliance announced new efforts around secure mashups, mashup widgets, Ajax IDEs, and Mobile Ajax.  "Today's announcements from the Alliance illustrate how it is helping extend the reach of Ajax from the consumer space into the enterprise by introducing the ability to security mashups as well as use any...
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IT Mill Toolkit 5.1.0 Released
A new version of open source, Java-only RIA framework IT Mill Toolkit 5 is now available. Version 5.1.0 is heading for stable Release 5, but is still considered as beta. Numerous stability improvements were made along with small API changes. For more information see release notes. Download IT Mill Toolkit 5.1.0 Release Notes  
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Client News WM-Data Is Now Logica Suomi Oy
One of IT Mill's biggest clients, WM-Data Oy has changed its name to Logica Suomi Oy . IT Mill and WM-Data have been successful business partners since year 2000. Relying on IT Mill Toolkit  Logica Suomi relies on IT Mill Toolkit when bringing Rondo, their complete document management system product into the RIA (Rich Internet Application) era. The possibility to use Java...
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IT Mill Toolkit 4.1 - Now Also Under the Apache License
Version 4.1.0 is a maintenance release for IT Mill Toolkit 4 branch. It introduces several enhancements and bugfixes.  The most significant change included in IT Mill Toolkit 4.1 is the Apache 2.0 license . It allows IT Mill Toolkit 4 to be used freely in systems that used to require a commercial license. This is a recommended update and everyone using IT Mill Toolkit 4.0.x in a...
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In Press IT Mill Seeks More Employees to Boost Growth
In its interview with IT Mill CEO Joonas Lehtinen Turun Sanomat describes the company and its challenges in finding new employees that are on the very best level technologically. "We need real specialists who can give advice to other specialists working for other software houses. A mere master's degree is no guarantee of expertise", says Lehtinen in the interview. According to...
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Event ICT Kampus 2008 on Feb 6
Interested in the same things we are? Passionate about technology? Like challenges? Want to work with real experts in a  relaxed and positive environment? Please come, meet our representatives and hear what kind of a job we could offer you! Take part in our competition and win a useful prize! You'll find us in the ICT Building (Joukahaisenkatu 3, Turku), stand number 9, on Wednesday,...
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IT Mill and IT Mill Toolkit 5 featured in Tietoviikko
Tietoviikko describes IT Mill Toolkit's security and ease-of use in a most excited manner. Read the article here (in Finnish) . Tietoviikko is one of the leading mediums for IT creators and observers in Finland. You'll find more information about the weekly magazine and its website here . Full story (in Finnish, 1.2MB JPG)
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IT Mill Hosts Turku Chamber of Commerce's Breakfast on Friday, Jan 25
IT Mill is hosted Turku Chamber of Commerce's Breakfast on Friday, January 25th. The event took place in IT Mill's own premises at Old Mill, Ruukinkatu 2-4.  
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