I'm not aware of the details of Microsoft POS, but in general with
Microsoft products the trick is that either their specifications are
unpublished, or they have significant nuances that are undocumented
and cause significant pain when trying to work with their stuff.
So yes, I'd say in theory it is possible. It would probably be a
rather painful process, unless you could find something like a library
to talk to the MS POS server acting like an MS POS client.
One other factor: the economics may not make a lot of sense... if
you're only trying to save $2k by the effort chances are you'll end up
upside down on the development effort required.
-David
On Apr 30, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
Totally off the wall...
My wife and I own a franchise that is requiring us to drop 2k into a
POS system (software only). The home office is requiring the pos
system be Microsoft POS, so they can get their data.
I was wondering if anyone has written a connector for ofbiz that
would provided a external interface that provided this
functionality. Incidentally, I have some experience with ofbiz, and
some with b2b connections like tibco, interconnect, etc... so that's
why I may have come up with this crazy idea;)
Thanks.
