[nflug] update to POS BIOS

[Robert Meyer]

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 :-)

Cheers!

Bob
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Corey Reichle <coreyreichle at verizon.net>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 9:26:11 AM
Subject: Re: [nflug] update to POS BIOS


It's a custom POS app written for the place.  I know the consultant who
installed it.  There are several liquor stores in the area that use
Redhat linux to power their POS terminals.

-- 
Corey Reichle <coreyreichle at verizon.net>
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 08:51 -0500, Brad Bartram wrote:
> There was a big hullaballoo in '99 or 2000 when autozone converted
 all
> of their pos terminals and back-end systems to red hat.  There are
> quite a number of bigger companies that use linux for pos and
> accounting - I agree though that it's relatively odd to see a small
> business using it in that role.  Did you happen to find out what
> software they were using aside from RH? 
> 
> 
> Brad 
> 
> On Dec 17, 2007 8:36 AM, Robert Wolfe <robertwolfe at localnet.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         
>         
>         On a lighter side of things, noticed that Key Liquors in the
>         Value Plaza
>         has Red Hat-powered POS terminals -- there is a "Powered by
>         Red Hat"
>         sticker on both of them :)  Thought it was a bit interesting
>         to see POS 
>         terminals powered by Red Hat or any distro of Linux for that
>         matter.
>         
>         Enough of my rambling.  Have a great, sunny morning everyone!
>         
>         --
>         Robert Wolfe
>         Systems Administrator
>         LocalNet Corp. 
>         CoreComm Internet Services
>         (517) 664-8924
>         
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