[nflug] Linux Powered Point of Sale

[vlok stone]

Best one I've seen is linuxcanda's quasar/retail
package. The accounting program is open source and
free, the POS is a pay for.

--- Erek Dyskant <erek at blumenthals.com> wrote:

> >
> > At this point, I am just curious as to whether or
> not there are 
> > currently any existing Point Of Sale applications
> available for 
> > Linux?  Preferably one with a MySQL backend.
> 
>     Sadly, there's very little open source POS
> software out there.  Open 
> source advocates tend to freely admit that there's
> an issue with 
> vertical applications, as the userbase is so small
> and doesn't always 
> overlap with people who are also programmers. 
> 
>     Many of the larger businesses that have serious
> custom development 
> money have gone with linux backends, and a lot of
> pizza places use One 
> Systems, Inc. which is a proprietary system that
> runs on Linux.
> 
>     There's BananaPOS, which was going in the right
> direction, but seems 
> to have stalled, and there's PHP POS, which is web
> based so it's only 
> suited to the lowest transaction counts.  However,
> Quicken POS, 
> Veritouch, and PC America all blow any open source
> application out the 
> window in this area.  My advice is to either go the
> roll your own route 
> or steer your customers to one of these and avoid
> giving open source 
> applications a bad reputation by having people use
> less than mature ones.
> 
>     There's definitely an opportunity for someone to
> write a fully 
> featured open source POS system, make it into a
> super simple 
> distribution, and sell support and hardware for it. 
> Maybe Corey could 
> consider nudging his friend who does the liquor
> store systems in that 
> direction.
> 
>     As for Mysql vs Postgres, the answer is have
> your cake and eat it 
> too.  A system like ideally this should ideally use
> a database 
> abstraction layer, so that it can be used with
> whatever each DBA is most 
> comfortable with.  Failing that, I really don't care
> since half of the 
> users will be disappointed that it doesn't use their
> DB of choice, get 
> over it, and learn a little about their less
> favorite DB.
> 
>     Enough rambling for the moment.
> 
> --Erek
> 
> 
> 
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