On Sunday 26 August 2007 06:27, Patrik Hasibuan wrote:
> Dear my friends,
>
> Our company is developing an application for POS. It includes: Cashier
> Machine, Barcode reader, Cash Drawer, Credit Card reader and
> inventory+repository. It's basically a PC but equipped with the devices for
> a kind of shop.
>
> We are insist to make opensuse as the priority of its platform. And we need
> to buy the machine as the development environment. They are: 1. PC Desktop;
> 2. Barcode reader;
> 3. Cash Drawer;
> 4. Credit card reader.
>
> So now, the question is which devices we should choose to buy so we do not
> have too much work to build the application because our "Development Time
> Frame" is not enough to also build the device driver, typical device
> manager software and so on.
Most of the POS OEM peeps write wintendo API's. Back when I worked for a POS
software development company ('93-'95) we did all our work in DOS or OS/2.
However, if you look around, you'll find some that do write UNIX/Linux apis.
Your barcode scanner will be a simple serial/usb interface. It may not even
have a driver.
The cash drawer and credit card reader may or may not have an interface. I'm
using ones from various manufacters. I'll look on monday to see if they have
*nix drivers.
You probably want to look at the individual devices and see what you can find.
I know that large retailers here in the US often use *nix for their systems.
(I think Lowe's uses it, for example.)
IBM may be a good bet for *nix integration.
>
> If it's possible please also give me the information to buy the device
> from. Virtual shop (website) is also OK. We are in Indonesia as the hint if
> you have the information of the shop where we can buy the device in
> offline-way.
Being in Indonesia, I'm surprised you don't have local suppliers.
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