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Linux To Run Sherwin-Williams Cash Registers

Posted by Hemos on from the victories-roll-in dept.

oilfieldtrash writes "According to this news article on Yahoo!, Sherwin-Williams will upgrade their point-of-sales systems to Linux ... 'Sherwin-Williams Co., the No. 1 U.S. paint maker, plans to convert its computers and cash registers in more than 2,500 stores to the upstart operating system in the next year and has hired International Business Machines Corp.'s services division to do the job.'"

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  1. Re:Not Exactly A Win For Linux by DavidJA · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    . But what these companies need to realize is that they can convert their old files into plain text files,

    Yes, because I want my .doc files which I have spent a considerable amount of time applying formatting styles to;(tables, bullet lists, bold and italic where required, headers/footers, etc, etc) converted to plain text!

    If I wanted my documents to be plain text than I would have used notepad!

    The question is WHY should I "upgrade" to linux????

    I'm using Win98, Word98 on my PII 400 and have been doing so for the past 4 years,

    Why would I want to change to an OS where I have to use plain old text for my word processing?