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Major Retailer Chooses Linux for its Tills

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

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."

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  1. Linux in the enterprise? by HangingChad · · Score: 5, Funny
    What's next? Cats barking at dogs? It's outta control! Obviously these people have never read those MSFT funded TCO studies or they would never have let that commie OS through the door.

    Hehe. MSFT is going to be pretty unhappy with Capgemini.

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  2. Remote Access? Nice. by Brent+Spiner · · Score: 5, Funny
    For example, when one of the Linux tills had a problem with the keyboard an IBM team in the US were able to connect onto the till remotely
    ssh root@till
    Password:
     
    root@till:~> eject /dev/till0
    Profit!!!
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  3. POS by Benwick · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linux will never as much of a POS as Windows!

    A Piece O'...

  4. But, but.... by RealisticCanadian · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  5. thrills? by StarvingSE · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did anyone else read this as " Major Retailer Chooses Linux for its Thrills" at first?

    Linux turns me on too... ;)

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  6. Clash of the acronyms by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  7. But Windows... by Sr.+Pato · · Score: 5, Funny

    has the lower cost of 0wnership!

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  8. Re:Work.. by hdparm · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other words, they migrated their cash systems to crash systems, right?

  9. Re:Actually you don't OWN your copy of Linux by LMariachi · · Score: 3, Funny
    Then I guess you can't own a dog either, since you're not allowed to torture it to death and sell the meat at a roadside barbeque stand. Can't own a car, since you're not allowed to rip out the muffler and drive 90mph through a school zone. Chainsaws? Propane tanks? Forget it.

    The unfettered ability to do whatever you want with a thing is not a necessary condition to "ownership." You may be thinking of "0wnage."

  10. Re:Work.. by tehshen · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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