Opening

I have the pleasure of opening the developer's blog of the Teamwork, Webwork, Smallcodes and Flowork applications, all built over the JBlooming platform.

We have used for quite a while Teamwork's blog also as a developers blog, but by now its time to dedicate a blog exclusively to technical issues.

Started in 2001 as a 4 friends startup company, Open Lab has been growing steadily in these seven years. We first made a leap by acquiring two other software houses in 2003 and 2004; now we are making our second leap, by putting together an enlarged development team and a prettier workplace. We'll call it <big>OpenLab</big>.

Open Lab is a rare case of an Italian IT company which is not a service company, but a real software house, with products like Teamwork, used today in 35 countries, and winner in 2007 of a Jolt Award, or Smallcodes, used by 10 different linguistic communities.

By real software house I mean not only what we do, but how: workplace quality, powerful tools, state of the art technology, a balanced male/female production team, team meetings, no overwork, pair programming, all contributes to the construction of a real, solid sotware house.

Pietro Polsinelli