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McDonald's Germany Moves to SuSE Linux
sglafata writes "Novell has made an announcement that McDonald's is moving towards Linux. 'With more than 30,000 restaurants around the globe and more than 1,200 in Germany alone, McDonald's is the undisputed market leader in the fast food sector.'"
so, are they going to start serving penguinburgers?
Will they use the money saved to use better meat?
Or should I say, will they use the money saved to buy ACTUAL meat?
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
What's next? Tuxburgers?
...-.-
I thought the Hamburglar was already working with SCO.
Would this be a conflict of interest?
Time to update your success story pages again.
Regards,
Linus
Poor SCO, McDonalds was their best customer!
Is it just me or isn't this a bit of a coop for linux.
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Yes MacDonalds is in trouble, (http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/supers
and *HAS* to do something about its image (like the new salads range and things)
But even still, this is a company that relies on computers like all big companies, but isn't actually in the field. Thay are going to use linux.
Roll on the linux age.
What are they doing with McDonalds? Do they have some kindov deal?
That's really exciting--maybe they'll switch to high quality food now, too.
But seriously...
I doubt that they'll replace their in-store systems. There's no real need there--most places are running something really ancient that still works. However, I wouldn't mind seing a penguin or two while I'm ordering... and, with all that money they've got, who knows?
. . . if Darl is dreaming of a McLicense with Coke®?
Slackware - because apt is for the lazy.
From the press release:
McDonald's Germany deploys SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server for DNS, FTP, and proxy services on the Internet.
I count three servers there, and "FTP" hardly strikes me as a core service for a fast-food company. This is your typical press-release, intended to produce hype but without a lot behind it. It strikes me as grandstanding by Novell since everyone knows McDonalds uses SCO Unix for many of their POS terminals and someone who reads this headline quickly may think they're ripping out Unix and putting in Linux. Sorry, only three boxes at play here.
And no, I'm not defending SCO, I'm just saying this press release doesn't mean much.
I'm conflicted. Part of me wants to jear, because I'm told McD is evil and I should hate it without question. And part of me wants to chear, since I'm told to support leenux without question. My knees don't know which way to jerk!
SCO has, for some time, told anyone who will listen that McDonalds cash registers run SCO Unix. Micky-dees is one of their largest customers.
Correction: WAS one of their largest customers!
When it rains it pours, eh?
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Not quite as bad as the Tabaco industry from the PC point-of-view.
But McDonalds is kind of a down market, low functionality kind of restaruant. Not exactly a great image for a high-tech customer reference. For that Tabaco would have been better.
Guess that food-selling business hasn't been working out, and now they're going to try and sell software?
Without the power of Windows they'll be bankrupt within months. I know that because I have a certificate.
Maybe a McDistro...
"Would you like Tux with that sir?"
- as well as in waste recycling, especially road kills, dead farm animals. pets etc.
I don't care what kernel they run, their burgers will still taste open-sourced.
Seems like meaningless self-promotion because who is this really going to effect and who is going to notice? Will a web surfer be like "Wow! This Big Mac Jpeg is loading SO much more efficiently than last week!"?
Novell is back - they convinced thousands of businesses to network in the 1980s and 1990s. And now they're selling Linux and support to more businesses. Which will need Linux software, and pay to get it. Either in cash, to developers, or in GPL code they revise and publish. The economic network effect will see Linux value increase exponentially as more nodes in the value net grow yet more nodes, passing value back and forth among the network - all paved with Linux. I haven't been this happy about Utah and Germany swinging together since the last Olympic skiing broadcasts.
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McDonald's is trying to make new inroads with the wildlife-loving set. After penguin burgers they will be introducing the wildly successful Baby Seal breakfast sausage. But the tastiest addition to their menu will be the Bald Eagle McNuggets. Yum!
..Thought Linux didn't have driver support for their chips...
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
I can see Balmer having apoplexy as we type.
This will probobly be followed up by calls on unamericanism, anticapitalism and communism against McDonalds. The company will then be accused of supporting terrorism and having al-queda training camps set up in parking lots after hours. Bin Laden wears a purple hat, cell leaders a green hat. Rookies wear red hats and fedoras. HA! I made another funnie!
Seriously though I doubt that the tillers at McD will be logging transactions at a bash prompt anytime soon. From the sound of the article the company is using Linux on backend servers for important tasks, like just about every medium to large company in existence. But I'd still be willing to bet that they're using 2000/3 and ADT.
May the Maths Be with you!
McDonalds - evil American monopolistic corporation forcing dubious farming practices and on the rest of the world and selling seriously unpleasant non-food. Linux - good. I'm confused; can an evil company be a good company if it switches to Linux? If so there is hope for Microsoft yet...
It's interesting that this has come about because I had a long discussion with a friend today who was ruminating over whether to pursue a career in IS related to Unix or Microsoft.
A cursory glance of the job opportunities seemed to indicate to him that getting MCSE certification was a wiser move than going into the Unix arena. He asked me, "If unix is so much better, why are there more Microsoft-related jobs?" And is Unix the future or is this just a fad?
I couldn't help but think that in my mind, Microsoft-based corporate IT setups are often more political than practical. Yes, you'll find more jobs with MCSE but it's not because there are necessarily more opportunities. It's because Microsoft-based tech people burn out more quickly, and often the companies they work for make politically-oriented tech decisions over what is practical and economical. It's almost like a litmus test for good corporate management these days. If a big company is using Unix, that's a sign they give their IT department substantive authority to pick the best tools for the job.
It's nice to know more recognized companies are obviously asking the tech people what are the best tools available to accomplish the objective.
So Microsoft or Unix? He continued to ask me.
After some thought my resonse was, "If you want job security and choices, MCSE will give you that, but don't expect to ever get to a point where you have things under control. That's something Unix people encounter a lot more often. But one look at the stats, such as the fact that Microsoft has only 21% of the Internet web server market and shows no sign of de-throning Apache, reveals that Unix is anything but a fad. Why less Unix-based jobs? Probably because Unix admins are a happier lot and turnover in their area is nowhere near the massive burnout rate of MCSEs."
So Micky-Ds in Germany is going Unix? This is less a sign of the corporation legitimizing Unix as it is likely that a number of key executives in that region have recognized that it might be a smart move to ask the IT people what are the best tools for the job.
Linux Needs Diet That's why they normally say 'Don't feed the animals' in a zoo.
I just wanted to coin that phrase before anyone else...
... SCO tells the world McD will be running SCO, because they own Linux and the request for the X times $699 is already in the mail.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
...that we can get SuSE-Linux CDs at McDonalds?
:-)
Or that every SuSE box contains a card for getting a free BigMac at McDonalds? Well, maybe the thing has to be renamed to BigTux.
it also says: "Apache as web server and JRun or Tomcat enable the implementation of static HTML contents as well as dynamic Java-based applications without having to resort to overly large solutions. The utilized Oracle9i database is certified for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server." and management of stock is core business for fast food restaurants.
this sig is trying not to get too fat.
It's sort of like reading about how linux is helping the US Military to more efficiently make weapons/train people to carry out their highly questionable "activities" worldwide. Yay, McDonald's will be able to exploit workers, wreak havoc on the environment, and serve sub-standard more efficiently and to make more money doing it. Hooray. Freedom is freedom and open is open but I'm not exactly gleeful about this news.
Are they trying to switch their image of capitalism and globalization front of linux's fellows? No probably not. I mean, we aren't that much. Is just that Linux is pretty popular in Germany? Yeah we are near... even governament in some cities uses that, (what that Munich?) Oh damn i got it! They are trying to become a governative institution and establishing their headquarter in germany! Just genious! And will come the day when the hambugers will eat us! Beware the Majonnese of the Damn Burgers is closer and closer! Save your childs and your women! And if you were wondering, yes, i'm idiot.
Still, might be "interesting" to see how their burgers are made now...
Due to lack of disk space this user has been discontinued
will their recipes now be open source?
re salads - McDonald's Salad Fattier Than Burgers
$ strings FTP.EXE | grep Copyright
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
The food is absolute shit, but they use Linux...
Argh...
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I would love to see a hybrid between Ronald McDonald and Tux as their mascot for the migration.
I worked at kfc until I quit a few weeks ago. It's one of the newer stores in this area.
The touch-screen registers we use there all run dos (with some kind of extensions of some sort)
The system is very unreliable, although I'm not sure whether it's the programmers fault or the managers of the store (1D10T errors).
We often lost orders between drivethrough windows, or the screen telling us what to pack would stop displaying any new orders, and we would have to get the person at the first window to yell the orders at us. Technology is wonderful.
What's next? Novell will announce that I switched my home router from FreeBSD to Linux?
There is actually a much more interesting press release on the Novell website about NetWare and McDonald's Brazil. It is unclear whether or not Germany was running SCO Unix on the servers before the switch to Linux, but SCO is apparently not a worldwide McDonald's affiliate, as McDonald's Brazil has been running NetWare for 15 years. This article also gives much more information about the IT infrastructure of McDonald's, since the slashdot article just made me think "How many DNS, FTP, and Proxy servers can McDonald's Germany possibly have?". McDonald's Brazil, which is about the same size as McDonald's Germany, has 6 giant servers in different locations accross the country, and each one has a huge database for all of the information of each restaurant, plus the administrative information. You have to remember that a lot of the IT related stuff is for McDonald's huge corperate staff, not the people taking your order. The other interesting thing is that McDonald's is completely centralized, so if a server failure occurs, and the in-store machines can't connect with a central database, they apparently can't take orders or give receipts out at the actual restaurants.
Susepersize that?
http://www.suse.co.uk/en/company/customer_referenc es/mcd.html
I read that page a week ago...
Some idiot mod went around making a lot of things redundant that shouldn't be.
Please fix them, and everyone metamoderate these comments up, to make sure that mod never mods again.
McDonald's Germany Moves to SuSE Linux
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Is the Linux Desktop Getting Heavier and Slower?
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
But stop calling McDonalds's quick & dirty energy salons "restaurants".
It's like saying "the MS-DOS operating system". Clueless people like it that way and all others.... Oh forget it
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
http://www.supersizeme.com
I highly Recomend it and so do a lot of other people
--meh--
The price of Freedom Fries is eternal vigilance
no, wait. I guess that's called a franchise.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
... McDonald's announced their latest delicious product, McBride Meal.
Funny how McDonalds is the epitomy of bad fattening food, environmentally unsound, and a nasty big corporation, but when they're switching to Linux they're OK.
Why do people keep buying their food anyway? I have to assume that people forget how bad it us until a nice shiny advert comes along and convinces them how good it is. Those nice soggy floppy burgers. Hmm.
Get your own free personal location tracker
s/fast food/junk food/g
his throws my whole spoon-fed, black and white Open Source = good, global coroporations = bad into complete confusion.
Please, WILL SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT TO THINK?
Didn't they report their first loss a few quarters back? This would still be a triumph for Linux in the real world, but it looks like a desperate attempt to make up for fixed costs. It's not necessarily that Linux is the best product, but rather that the product is the right price.
How does it in any way serve society if they all collectively not use the best and most efficient tool for the job? If we were still hand-crafting cars because otherwise it'd serve to exploit the low-paid and extremely replacable factory line workers?
Being more efficient at what we do is what makes the world as a whole richer. Money is never "lost" in a society, it changes hands but never vanishes. Sometimes (actually, most of the time) the distribution isn't fair but that's no reason to stop improving the productivity/cost ratio.
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Taking joy from the misfortune of others. A universal human hobby.
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mc'donalds and linux it is like the symbol of capitalism meeting the symbol of non-capitalism. weird match
this sig violates slashdot rules
I'm all confused now...
MacDonald's is meant to be evil...
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
Gotta say it!
Maybe this is a plan to squash those pesky rumors that McDs puts worm meat in their burgers.
Call it "eatodromes" instead.
so if a server failure occurs, and the in-store machines can't connect with a central database, they apparently can't take orders or give receipts out at the actual restaurants
That is so remarkably unlikely that I think it must be wrong. I can state categorically that even with electronic POS systems, stores of 10 years ago did not require access to any server to sell product. And it is the selling of product that the evil McEmpire has down pat. They simply would let "storing data" get in the way of "sellin' product". so I doubt they would have POS registers (note the P, and the S) dependent on a wide area network to function.
"The first thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is stop digging."
Will we finally find out what the secret recipe for Big Mac sauce is?
Actually.. ..my understanding is that subway is now the largest fast food chain.
Why else would mcdonalds be trying to say they are healthy, they are loosing customers.
Anyone got any links to back this up.
Greg
It'd be nice if McDonalds would open source the Double Quarter Pounder, that burger rocks...
Linux deployments on the server stopped being news years ago. If we see some movement on enterprise desktops, that'd be worthy of the /. frontpage.
MMmmm, Tux Burgers.
Seems like lots of European companies are moving over. Norwegian Postal Service is moving to Linux from Windows on the desktop.
Je ne parle pas francais.
The use of Linux does not change a thing on the quality of food served by McDonalds!
Grundgesetz * 23. Mai 1949 - 30. November 2007 - http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/
Could i get a free shell along with my hamburger?
A little stupidity is as unlikely as a little pregnancy
Lets all make a statement and go to our local McDonalds and order a bigmac. If enough people do this it will be visible in their economy system. We will slashdot MdDonalds.
but sco according to sco!? http://www.thescogroup.com/company/success/story.h tml?ID=9
s/food//g
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McDonald's is the undisputed market leader in the fast food sector.
This is why I like slashdot. It's so educational.
Software Wars
... I think they were talking about the burgers, not the corporate IT budget!
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Don't you think? http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7324
I always thought that McDonalds is much like Microsoft - produces completely unedible product, but is obvois market leader and is known to everone.
Guess they'll be doing a complete install at every McDonald's as they love fat clients.
Omnis amans amens
McDonald's burgers taste like cardboard and sugar.
In soviet russia stale jokes recycle you!
YUM? But that's Yellow Dog Linux - not SuSE
How's this flamebait? What have you got against smoking? Or is it just that when you do smoke, you prefer crack?
Don't kwow about Europe, but MacD's USA is a big customer of Micros - they make POS terminals and the "backstore/office" hardware to support it.
I interviewed there once - they seemed to have SCO Unix and NT based systems.... atleast in the dept that I interviewed in.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
I guess SCO will have to sue them now.
They said they were going to cut the fat from their products. They just didn't say where from.
I know you are psychotic, but please make an effort.
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whoreabull fat/disease peddler that he is.
there's still nothing nice to say about the softwar gangsters, whoare failing miserabully in their international hostage takings.
wall street felons, wwworld's biggest scamsters.
much more damage done than some clogged mail servers.
still testing robbIE's fauxking pateNTdead PostBlock devise. pheWWW!@#$%
...that Linux is getting bloated
Now is the winter of our disco tent
"Thomas Trepl (McDonald's Germany) says, "All in all, an enormous stability and availability is clearly evident." Do you suppose more "wholesale adoption of Linux" could be coming? Heh heh.
It's only funny until someone gets hurt. Then, it's hilarious.
With more than 30,000 restaurants around the globe and more than 1,200 in Germany alone, McDonald's is the undisputed market leader in the fast food sector.
Not in Canada. As any Canadian would be able to tell you, Tim Horton's (a doughnut chain) now has more locations than McDonald's does.
I think they passwed a law that you cannot drive more than 5 minutes without finding a Tim Horton's.
Other trivia: Tim Horton's is Canada's largest retailer of bagels.
In real corporate environments no, specially ftp that would compromise the other two.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
I don't know much about the systems in Brazil, but I can state with certainty that the recommended US POS system does not require any sort of WAN to function. Most stores' only connectivity is a dial-up modem connected to their back-office computer.
In fact, you could cut every single network cable in a US McDonald's restaurant and they would still be able to sell hamburgers, albiet with limited functionality in many respects.
You just increased SCO's pagerank with keywords "success story"!
Tell me, were you smoking something?
OMG JOE BLOW SWITCHED TO LINUX MAKE A POST ON SLASHDOT
How come no stories about companies switching to Mac OSX or even the dreaded Windows?
I wonder how quick this post will get a -1
If they are savvy they should have at least 6, 2 for each service, in separate locations for resilience.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
... and I suppose freshmeat.net will supply them with the meat?
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Bloody hell... chickens breaking out from behind the wire and staging a revolution...
You have to be really be a nasty nitpicker to convolute so much good news.
Surely you have never done something good given the fact that you are an evildoer (or at least the evidence of your posting would suggest that).
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
You have your own brain I pressume, drawyour own conclusions....
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
as if mc donalds food wasnt bloated enough. This isnt really new news though, MC'D's has been on the list of companies that use suse for ages now..
this is great news - now if the u.s. can follow suit
(no pun intended)
hey isn't mcdonalds strictly a sco shop
oh - nevermind
That Suse will now look fresh and tasty on the box, but the actual product you get will be sort of stale, brown and wilted?
I seem to recall Michael Douglas going ballistic over this in a movie once...
The real reaon they are doing it is to reduce costs.
1 The main expense with the system will be admin costs.
2 After the tech slump there are loads of unix admins working at McDonnalds earning minimum wage.
3 Take a guess...
4 Porfit!
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We now need a McDonald's topic, as they have adopted the lovable penguin.
They're not undisputed in the fast food sector, they are definitely the leader in the burger biz though. Yum! Brands, Inc. has about 33,000 restaurants and is growing quickly. McDonald's doesn't have anywhere to grow significantly, while Yum! and its five brands do.
maybe they can make their food edible.
Well, thats really going to piss Darl off isnt it ? Having just announced "major product wins" with MacDonalds in his quartlerly statement... Woo Hoo !
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nick
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They should have bought Apple's servers. Lots of big macintoshs. Miam.
"It would be far more suicidal of SCO to go after a current customer who provides them with a very large portion of there OS revenue"
I remember reading, somewhere, that if McDonalds wasn't THE largest installed base of SCO Unix out there, it's one of the largest.
McBride and company have already shown stupidity of cataclysmic proportions. However, I don't think they're quite dumb enough to alienate one of the largest segments of their customers over something that could be construed as a "test migration".
McDonalds dropping their contract as a punitive measure to a lawsuit would probably be more than enough to tank SCO on the spot.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
"Would you like source with that?!"
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Sounds like covert protectionism doesn't it? Get German businesses to run German software with German support contracts. I mean with 11.5% chronic unemployment somebody's got to find work for the tape monkeys, no?
No? No fries?
del fries
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
It also makes one wonder, if they are going to move their burger ingredients to "open source" by revealing the contents of the foods...
Don't sell us short here in North America. Some of us make our own dough, cook on flatstones, and keep herb gardens. Do I make EVERY pizza fresh at home? No, but it's about having - - or making - - the time to enjoy the process as much as the product. I will grant you, though, that Euro folk seem a little ahead of us in the respect that they see more to life than "getting ahead" at work. Even so, on a recent visit to Aix, I noticed that the HUGE McDonald's was full of happy local folk. They clearly know what a Mac Attack is these days.
It's only funny until someone gets hurt. Then, it's hilarious.
"Jetzt gibt's dann auch bei McDonalds wieder das Sparmenü. Das kann man sich dann sparen."
Translates to something like:
"Now McDonalds will have the Save-Menu again. That you can save yourself then."
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
I bought a big Mac yesterday to get one of the Sony Connect Songs. I noticed on the specs that it requires Windows ME/2000/XP - no Mac or Linux Support
At least in the Pepsi promotion - the songs worked on all three major platforms (Linux with a little hack)
I find it very ironic that a Big Mac with a song doesn't work on a Mac at all. The Sony Connect Store doesn't function properly under Virtual PC either.
So, the Sonny Connect songs won't be able to play on the machines the Germans just bought unless they boot into Windows.
Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
> McDonald's burgers. Not meaty enough for carnivores. Not meatless enough for vegetarians. Why do people eat them? Oh yeah, fast and cheap.
Fast, Cheap, Non-toxic.
Pick any Two.
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
"Would you like salt with that wound, Mr. McBride?"
Disclaimer: I'm not claiming that as an original quote on my part. Saw it on another forum and ROTFLMAO
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
No bird that eats fish has meat worth eating by humans. There's a short story, by Jack London, IIRC, on a seagull recipe. It starts with a long list of ingredients and preparation steps, and ends with something like "...then throw it all away and get something else to eat. Nothing tastes as bad as seagull".
It costs to ship bubble wrap (think mostly air) from China to Home Depot. I hope they keep the SARS-contaminated air to themselves. How can this be a good idea.
Back on topic: I had told my wife some time ago that once McDonalds jumped the SCO ship, it would sink. Silly me, I thought MS had positioned themselves to grab McD's business.
Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a critical component of spiritual devotion. Jon Krakauer
I say to celebrate, they strike a promotion deal where they give away the SuSE lizards, Tux, and action figures of Jack Messman in their happy meals!
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
Most McDonald's have the following setup (in the US AFAIK, yes I used to work for McDonald's): 2 servers, 1 for serving the terminals, 1 for the private-eye system (to control the average of 23 cameras in a store). The terminals (the "ordering" terminals) all use MS-DOS embedded.
The main reason for this is: the terminals connect to server 1 to retrieve information, mostly screen layout, what server(s) to send information to (orders taken, etc.). MS-DOS is used because the power can be cut off/on with minimal startup/shutdown times. The terminal server also has access to reboot the terminals themselves. The terminals are completely dependant on the terminal server to run correctly.
Some of the terminals aren't completely dumb terminals (some have hard drives), and of course there are specialized terminals. In a dual-booth (front drive thru and back drive thru as we call it) there are 2 terminals in each booth. In front drive thru there is a monitor that shows orders. The terminals can change functions, too: can be a cashier, order-taker, or both at once.
So back to the topic: are they switching the server, terminals, or both? The server I can see, but the terminals would be a bit harder.
Are they even switching the in-store system? I doubt it (as parent poster said). The current system works and is pretty stable. So... my whole post is moot. Good day.
I might have to get an account for this purpose.
I know that McDonald's Canada does not use a 'central server' for the POS systems in the stores.
I worked for one franchisee in 3 of his stores, and another in 4 of his stores. In both these cases, the POS server was in the store. The only time a central server in the main franchisee office was brought into the picutre was late at night when everyone had gone home, for paperwork purposes only.
Since each store can offer a slightly different menu, and each store can use a different POS terminal. Local POS server makes more sense to me.
McD's could give a rat's rump about the SCO case as such, but their IT department has to see The Writing on The Wall: that the vendor for the back-end software in their thousands of franchises is crashing. There's already an injunction in place in Germany against SCO making claims against Linux, and using SuSE gives it a 'local vendor' bonus there, so it's an easy choice for a proving ground.
If this works, with the Novell deal now giving them a US support base, they have a potential migration path out of a failing vendor. Whether they wait for SCO to crater or just move ahead and dare SCO to bring suit on their largest customer remains to be seen.
I know for a fact that some of DaimlerChrysler's SCO systems weren't phased out until this past January, and in at least one case (a dealership for whom I do contract admin work) there's an IBM Netfinity running SCO UnixWare that's happily chugging along in a back room off of the Parts Department.
The Netfinity was part of the DIAL system, which the dealership used to track and record repairs and recall information, along with other data that had been getting sent back to the corporate HQ on a regular basis. And though it's been phased out in favor of a web-based application, there's still legacy data stored locally that the warantee manager needs to access. Hence, the Netfinity is still up and running.
Soybean meat
I heard it was 50% ground beef, 50% soybean, but I am not sure
With more than 30,000 restaurants around the globe and more than 1,200 in Germany alone, McDonald's is the undisputed market leader in the fast food sector.
You know, until I saw this, I never consciously realized that I had never, ever thought of McDonald's locations as restaurants. I think the proper term here is joint.
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
It's interesting that this has come about because I had a long discussion with a friend today who was ruminating over whether to pursue a career in IS related to Unix or Microsoft.
As a *nix developer and system administrator, I have 5 major positions I play in (on an out-sourced basis) regularly.
All pay well. All entail my knowledge of Linux. None were obtained by anything anywhere related to a "job board". Job boards are the tripe positions - the "it doesn't matter as long as your body temp is close to 98.6F" positions. Go to a job board or employment agency, and you'll find jobs where qualifications are given lip service, and your primary requirement for employment is being warm and still breathing.
Will you experience appreciation in such a position? Hardly.
Real jobs are filled when two executives talk idly in the golf cart on the way to hole #7. Real jobs are filled in the restaurant or bar after the trade convention. Real jobs are filled when two executive friends talk to each other on a Tuesday night.
What are real jobs? The ones that matter - where you'll work hard, get paid very well, and be lavished with appreciation and company ownership.
In order to get these real jobs, you have to be somebody everybody trusts. Be very, very, VERY good at what you do, and let everybody know it without bragging, but with results. Develop relationships with those that need people with your skills.
When push comes to shove, the real jobs get filled by referrals from powerful people who trust you, and almost never from a job board. Be that person trusted by powerful people, and the real jobs flow.
Oh, and in my experience, the real jobs are not to be found administering Windows boxen - which is why the "warm body" job boards are littered with MCSE requirements... but a Unix/Linux position tends to be held for years by people nobody really wants to piss off...
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Yeah,my exgirlfriend visited 100% beef when she was backpacking there.
It's a farm on the north west coast of australia.
The Neo-Bohemian Techno-Socialist
...are they going to open source their food?!?
The Neo-Bohemian Techno-Socialist
Actually, coup is the French word that means, roughly, "to strike, or to hit". Coup d'etat is the most commonly seen use of it for most Americans, and so a coup is just that to most. But there is also a coup de main, a blow of the hand (punch), coup de pied, a blow from the foot (kick), etc, etc, etc.
wow, i can already imagine
kid : "Hey dad, what's that wierd thing in my burger instead of normal beef ?"
dad: "It's tux, a penguin, the linux mascott, and we will have to eat it now cause it's cheaper and more reliable and is licenced under GPL, make sure you publish it later after you have altered it."
I'd tell you the chances of this story being a dupe, but you wouldn't like it.
Geeko reminds me of the Budweiser lizards.
It is entirely wrong. My experience was that of a once-nightly dialup to corporate accounting after everything had been gone over on the local system.
Linux: Free if your time is worthless.
Hmmmm... so that's why the Linux desktops are getting so bloated.
Maybe McDonalds will buy SCO. Honestly, at some point, what with the companies dropping cost, it will probably be cheaper for them just to own SCO rather then migrate to Linux.
The Neo-Bohemian Techno-Socialist
New commands at the drive through:
Kill Cow
hash Meat
Mk Burger
Mount Burger
srv Burger
There is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men. -- Boondock Saints
This *could* be the perfect way to finally beat MS at their own game. All Mcdonalds would have to do....
Include SuSE installation CD's in every happy meal!
Do you suppose McDonald's got cold feet after all the crap SCO's been pulling? IIRC, McDonald's used to be one of SCO's biggest customers.
Their fries are flavored with beef artificial flavoring.
Remind me of the intro of this cult movie:
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[All guys in the dinner, ready to go
EDDIE
All right. Everybody cough up some green for the little lady.
Come on. Throw in a buck.
MR. PINK
Uh-uh. I don't tip.
EDDIE
You don't tip?
MR. PINK
No - I don't believe in it.
EDDIE
You don't believe in tipping?
MR. BLUE
You know what these chicks make? They make shit.
MR. PINK
Don't give me that. She don't make enough money, she can quit.
(Mr. Blonde laughs.)
EDDIE
I don't even know a fucking Jew who'd have the balls to say that. Let me just get this straight. You don't ever tip, huh?
MR. PINK
I don't tip because society says I have to. Alright, I mean I'll tip if somebody really deserves a tip, if they really put forth the effort, I'll give 'em something extra, but I mean this tipping automatically is for the birds.
(Eddie laughs.)
I mean as far as I'm concerned they're just doing their job.
This is a stolen sig.
If McDonalds were putting in customer self-service point of sale X terminals then I would get excited about this. There is, however, absolutely no mention of point of sale in any of this. It's about one percent as important as it would be if this was about making use of a free software operating system and X in the point of sale perspective.
Let's see, Google, "Linux POS", mmmmmmmm.....
Q: Is the Linux Desktop Getting Heavier and Slower?
A: Yes. Yes it is.
Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology; Ain't got time to make no apology
lp1 on fire
process forked
stty: not a typewriter
And then there's BeOS's bundled web browser, NetPositive which throws error messages in haiku.
Under what license are they issuing fries these days? wouldn't this undermine their market dominance as the 'best fries ever'? have tasty fries become a commodity?
...corrections?
Is a "Window" the best distribution model? hasn't this been disproven?
Is the research of "tastes like chicken" open for public development?
and lastly, is (gawd, not again!) "Open Source Burgers" written as: "Burger geöffnete Quelle"?
--- Das einzige, das wir zu fürchten haben, ist die Furcht selbst.
The new white meat in the McNuggets is penguin.
Imagine the possibility of up-to-the-second financial information on McDonald's performance... Now I'd like to make it perfectly clear that I don't like McDonald's at all. (One time, I was flying across the country with my father, and while we waited in the airport, we both got really hungry. He broke down and got McDonald's. I told him I'd rather starve. After he ate that, he felt really sick for the remainder of our flight... In my opinion, they don't use healthy ingredients, or at least they don't use them in a healthy combination.) But, when a big market leader makes a move like this, it's sure to raise some eyebrows, and I think it will help when other corporate managers start considering alternatives to expensive proprietary software.
'The Enron of the software industry'
'The Worldcom of the software industry'
(also, just to Googlebomb them a bit more...)
'Darl McBride is an lying Idiot'
'Blake Stowell is a lying Idiot'
'Bob Bench is a lying Idiot'
'Rob Enderle is a lying Idiot'
'Laura Didio is a lying Idiot'
and the Peice de Resistance....
'Ken Brown is the new Leon Trotsky!'
Do GNU come with dem fries?
Meanwhile I have felt much healthier......
I never twigged that was the start of RD..... Full marks for 'popular cultural reference'...
For some reason (and this is where my point of "cultural differences" comes from) in this country (UK) tipping waiting staff [in a resturant] is normally done if they have given decent service (aka they are not useless) however the practice does not normally translate to other things (e.g. bar staff). If they have not given reasonable service a tip is either minimal or not given.
As an aside. "She" probably can't quit. US Society (my impression of it at least) seems to dictate that the employer will not pay the employee enough therefore the employee has to gain tips to suppliment their income. On the other side of the fence (the customer) their is the (justified) impression of the employee that is under paid hence the moral pressure to tip, thus developing a self reinforcing practice.
I suspect that the premise of Mr Pink in your quote:[if] She don't make enough money, she can quit. generally doesn't apply since people in such jobs are likely to be very "cashflow sensitive", so they can't quit and have to "play the game", reinforcing the situation of essentially compulsory tips.
"Catch 22".
Be nice to people on the way up. You will meet them again on your way down!
{nt}
I wonder what an Independent Stock Research company would think about this.
OF course this is HUGE. That means Lots of Linux geeks can get promotions because they understand the business software!!! For me personally this is hillarious because I'm dying to workwith Linux and one of my last employers is still heavily novell...I could end up back working for the clown.
As for SCO, I'd be worried... after all, McDs can get you...They've got all that dangerous hot coffee to use on McBride...not to mention suing "McBride" for use of the "McName"...their lawyers are THAT GOOD. This should be fun!!
Thanks for Karma pimping me dude.
If I had mod points on an extra account, I would mod you up as insightful. *grin*
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