Actually I am seeing more Windows (touch screen) registers in more stores
now-a-days.  (Best Buy, etc).  And it seems to be going to *ducking*
a Windows SQL server either in the store or remotely.  I have been trying
to get small businesses in town to get rid of their clunky registers
and get a cheap $299 system (with monitor) and another system thats in
the back on a UPS and w/ tape backup.  Problem is with smaller businesses,
trying to prove how they can improve business with this option than paper
work/receipts is a chore to do itself.  But I am glad ZScoundrel sent
this.  I print all the articles up, put them in plastic sleeves, and
into a binder as an extra sales pitch.

-- 
Mark Hutchings
desynergy@onebox.com - email

---- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins@opus1.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: zscoundrel [mailto:zscoundrel@kc.rr.com]
> 
> > Here is a neat story about linux making inroads into another 
> > market niche!
> 
> > http://my.netscape.com/corewidgets/news/story.psp?cat=50380&id
> > =200209251640000204294
> 
> (IBM is using Linux for POS terminals.)
> 
> Old news.  POS Terminals have been running on *NIX for decades.  There
> was a
> brief flurry of Windows PC's running terminal emulators, but why pay
> $500
> for the software ($250 for Windows, $250 for Rumba) when you can run
> Linux
> instead?
> 
> (Hmmm, what's IBM's stock at today...)
> 
> 
>