Last week, on March 27th 2007, Motorola University hosted the 2007 Kick-off event of the Aras Community Network. We had some great presenters, a full house, and lots of enthusiasm. Peter led off in the morning with a rousing overview of the move to M...

In an earlier post, I alluded to AML (Adaptive Markup Language) as the "secret sauce" of Innovator.  Most enterprise systems claim some level of XML support, but Innovator takes it a few steps further.  XML, in the form of the AML...

The traditional Open Source projects are collaborations on infrastructure software (e.g. Linux operating system, JBOSS middleware, MySQL database), while the software applications needed to run a business are still tightly controlled, proprietary sys...

What impresses me the most about open source is the change in relationship between the software developer and the end users.   Without a sales-person in the middle, this is a healthier relationship built on collaboration, not on cash extrac...

Innovator uses a number of terms that are either completely unique or just defined a little differently than in other systems.  I'll attempt to define a few of them here, with more to come later: ItemType: An ItemType is a construct that de...