On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 11:16 -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > I frequently note that places like Fry's (CCC, Blockbuster, others) are > working in POS systems that predate Win 3.1. Occasionally they look like > Foxpro, sometimes they're in a windowing system so old I've forgotten the > name of the library.
IIRC, Fry's is using Netware. Like you said, it's working (not as good as it could with a new UNIX based system, but it works) so updating the thing would be an expensive, time consuming, and risky endeavor. > > The point, as we all know, is that a working system is far too valuable, > and far to expensive to reengineer, for an enterprise to dink with it just > because M$ wants to add to their bottom line. Which is one of the top reasons I tell people (and especially those where I currently work) to stay away from critical systems that rely upon M$ operating systems and/or M$ technology. They are not "Enterprise Ready", the life cycle is way too short. M$ often "upgrades" things that force expensive updates and break operability. With UNIX systems, things tend to keep working even with an update. The life cycle is also much longer. I won't even go into the reliability issue as there's no point on a Linux list. PGA -- Paul G. Allen BSIT/SE Owner/Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
