Slashdot Mirror
Major Retailer Chooses Linux for its Tills
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet is running an article on how Matalan has installed several thousand point of sale terminals running Linux rather than Windows. The reason? Reduced cost of ownership. It was a big consultancy that did the work, Capgemini, and IBM on the kit side. Sounds like some people can get Linux to work in an 'enterprise environment' after all."
Hehe. MSFT is going to be pretty unhappy with Capgemini.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Reality test... am I dreaming?
Linux will never as much of a POS as Windows!
A Piece O'...
1. Linux
2. Profit!!!
Microsoft swears by it's "independent" studies that windows is better, faster, cheaper!
And besides, what about licencing? You absolutely have to have that!
OMFG! And I almost forgot, you actually OWN your installed copy of linux, as opposed to MSWXP! Why, why would you actually want to OWN the software you pay money for? Are you crazy?
Up is down! Down is up! The world doesn't make any sense anymore!
A couple fans told me that my last journal entry was mint; give it a shot. Hope you like.
Did anyone else read this as " Major Retailer Chooses Linux for its Thrills" at first?
;)
Linux turns me on too...
I got nothin'
When I see the POS acronym, and when someone mentions a POS system, my very first thought is to image a system that is literally a piece of $#!+ I know what POS is supposed to mean here. Really, I do.
READY.
PRINT ""+-0
has the lower cost of 0wnership!
Nobody's gay for Mole-Man.
I love linux! I wish I had a major big organisation so I could deploy it all over, from the servers, through the desktops, to the devices. Wait, make that a government, I wish I were a head of a government so I could dictate that Linux would run on all its computers. I'm sure with linux the schools and public libraries would be alright. Once it's in the schools and libraries, people would get used to it, firefox and gaim are just fine, so are gimp and openoffice, and there'd be no reason for them to fear it in the workplace or at home.
"I work as a cashier at a grocery store, and they run MS XP Embedded. We have at least 1 till crash at least once a day"
At least one crash per day?? Something MUST be wrong with you setup -- that's WAY too little a number per day!
In other words, they migrated their cash systems to crash systems, right?
The unfettered ability to do whatever you want with a thing is not a necessary condition to "ownership." You may be thinking of "0wnage."
LOL! I do my groceries at a wholesaler next to my place, and their registers run on Windoze. They have the default "clang" beep, and each time they beep, I jump...
I used to work in a wine store which ran KDE. In certain cases, having a smashing bottle sound on an error message isn't a good thing...
Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.
But that means that the POS and the operating system that you choose has to scale.
I thought that if the operating system is Windows that it's already a POS.