<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">You know, when this conversation started out, PoS had a *way* different meaning... It certainly wasn't "Point of Sale"... We should change the subject of this, now :-)<br><br>Cheers!<br><br>Bob<br><div> </div>--<br>"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."<br> --Leonardo da Vinci<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Corey Reichle <coreyreichle@verizon.net><br>To: nflug@nflug.org<br>Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 9:26:11 AM<br>Subject: Re: [nflug] update to POS BIOS<br><br>
It's a custom POS app written for the place. I know the consultant who<br>installed it. There are several liquor stores in the area that use<br>Redhat linux to power their POS terminals.<br><br>-- <br>Corey Reichle <<a ymailto="mailto:coreyreichle@verizon.net" href="mailto:coreyreichle@verizon.net">coreyreichle@verizon.net</a>><br>On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 08:51 -0500, Brad Bartram wrote:<br>> There was a big hullaballoo in '99 or 2000 when autozone converted
all<br>> of their pos terminals and back-end systems to red hat. There are<br>> quite a number of bigger companies that use linux for pos and<br>> accounting - I agree though that it's relatively odd to see a small<br>> business using it in that role. Did you happen to find out what<br>> software they were using aside from RH? <br>> <br>> <br>> Brad <br>> <br>> On Dec 17, 2007 8:36 AM, Robert Wolfe <<a ymailto="mailto:robertwolfe@localnet.com" href="mailto:robertwolfe@localnet.com">robertwolfe@localnet.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> On a lighter side of things, noticed that Key Liquors in the<br>> Value Plaza<br>> has Red Hat-powered POS terminals -- there is a "Powered by<br>>
Red Hat"<br>> sticker on both of them :) Thought it was a bit interesting<br>> to see POS <br>> terminals powered by Red Hat or any distro of Linux for that<br>> matter.<br>> <br>> Enough of my rambling. Have a great, sunny morning everyone!<br>> <br>> --<br>> Robert Wolfe<br>> Systems Administrator<br>> LocalNet Corp. <br>> CoreComm Internet Services<br>> (517) 664-8924<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>>
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