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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. OT - I went to your Typo3 blog, and... by wolf30082 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It reminds me of the 3 times I tried to do something with typo. Most of the internal links don't work. I gave up on typo and went with Xoops PNuke and Mambo. It would really be cool if you had an email form on your typo site, cause then I could have told you off-list. I really like PhishFighting.com. Glad somebody thought of it. Wolf Named Coward

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