Re: [SLUG] Linux and POS

2007-02-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
there are several pos implementations listed on freshmeat.net some of them seem very mature. Dean Howard Lowndes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 February 2007 08:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering on suggestions of Linux POS (point of sale) solutions available

Re: [SLUG] Linux and POS

2007-02-01 Thread Russell Davie
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:17:22 +1100 Lindsay Holmwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heya Russell, I've done a bit of work in this area before with Kennards Hire, and some general research of available POS systems. They developed a custom application in Java that sits on top of a Fedora install.

[SLUG] Linux and POS

2007-01-31 Thread Russell Davie
Hi All I was wondering on suggestions of Linux POS (point of sale) solutions available for retail. Has anybody seen this work in a live retail environment? GNU would be great, however this may be unrealistic. Links and contacts sought for who can do this sort of work here in Australia - NSW,

Re: [SLUG] Linux and POS

2007-01-31 Thread Carlo Sogono
Russell Davie wrote: Hi All I was wondering on suggestions of Linux POS (point of sale) solutions available for retail. Has anybody seen this work in a live retail environment? GNU would be great, however this may be unrealistic. Links and contacts sought for who can do this sort of work

Re: [SLUG] Linux and POS

2007-01-31 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Heya Russell, I've done a bit of work in this area before with Kennards Hire, and some general research of available POS systems. They developed a custom application in Java that sits on top of a Fedora install. The app runs at all their branches nation wide and replicates data back to a central

Re: [SLUG] Linux and POS

2007-01-31 Thread david
I'm on the sql-ledger and ledger-smb (a fork) mailing lists. There has been a fair bit of chatter on those lists over the years about POS, so it seems that people are doing it. Might be worth asking over there. David. On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 10:17 +1100, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: Heya Russell,

Re: [SLUG] Linux and POS

2007-01-31 Thread jam
On Thursday 01 February 2007 08:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering on suggestions of Linux POS (point of sale) solutions available for retail. Has anybody seen this work in a live retail environment? GNU would be great, however this may be unrealistic. Links and contacts sought