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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. easy decision by CmdrTaco+on · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Both Windows and Linux met the security requirements set by Matalan, but Linux was preferred by the retailer as it was less of a target for malicious code, according to Menzel. The evaluation began at the end of 2003 when the Blaster worm was wreaking havoc in companies. Though there have been no serious outbreaks of Linux viruses in the wild, which gave the open source operating system a definite advantage in the eyes of Matalan executives.

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  2. Re:Remote Access? Nice. by pete-classic · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I really shouldn't feed the ACs, but I just can't help myself.

    Data was neither an engineer nor a virgin.

    He was the Science officer.

    He got down with Lt. Yar (as portrayed by Denise Crosby) very early in the series.

    -Peter

  3. Re:going "onto the bios" ? by meringuoid · · Score: 0, Redundant
    At work we have standard serial console servers that connect to com1

    You misspelled /dev/ttyS0.

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