Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

[News] New Point of Service Linux Product Released

  • Subject: [News] New Point of Service Linux Product Released
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:53:03 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Novell Ships SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service for Retailers

,----[ Quote ]
| Novell today announced the availability of SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Point of 
| Service, the latest version of Novell's Linux* solution optimized for retail 
| computing environments. SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service allows 
| retailers to customize and manage point of service (POS) systems, reducing 
| their in-store and data center costs while increasing system flexibility and 
| reliability.     
`----

http://www.examiner.com/p-121251~Novell_Ships_SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Point_of_Service_for_Retailers.html

Red Hat Competes in Crowded Market

,----[ Quote ]
| The company’s fate rests not so much on the quality of its enterprise Linux 
| platform – the product is well regarded. Instead, “It’s kind of: it’s that 
| all there is and all there’s going to be? In which case, Red Hat will 
| presumably continue on as a company, but probably with fairly modest growth.”   
`----

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3730366


Recent:

Linux growing fast in POS, Microsoft still tops

,----[ Quote ]
| In the North American market for POS (point of sales/service) terminals, 
| Linux grew 32 percent year-over-year, according to figures released by IHL 
| Group. The research firm reckons Linux accounted for $475 million of the 
| $5.56 billion market, putting it third overall with an 8.5 percent market 
| share.    
`----

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8365122751.html


Innova Card: Linux powered PCI-PED certified single-chip POS

,----[ Quote ]
| Innova Card announces that Card Access Services has obtained PCI-PED approval 
| for its USIP based CASPAD C200 EFTPOS running Linux operating system. 
`----

http://www.embedded-control-europe.com/prodnews?cat=1&pid=1342


Related:

Gemalto First Company to Receive EMV and American Express Certifications for
its Linux-Based Payment Terminals in Italy

,----[ Quote ]
| is platform, which incorporates the MagIC Open&Sec technology running on 
| Linux, is aimed at securing the open world with unrivalled power and 
| connectivity–MagIC³ is powered by two 32-bit microprocessors and features 
| Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices. In addition, its Ethernet connection 
| propels it into the Internet world.    
`----

http://www.smartcardalliance.org/articles/2007/10/03/gemalto-first-company-to-receive-emv-and-american-express-certifications-for-its-linux-trade-based-payment-terminals-in-italy
http://tinyurl.com/39mczy


Point-of-sale device runs Linux from flash

,----[ Quote ]
| One of the first POS (point-of-sale) equipment vendors to adopt Linux
| will now become one of the first to offer solid-state storage. Wincor
| Nixdorf's new X-Series, due in January, will be offered with an
| Msystems mModule uDOC embedded flash disk. 
| 
| A 30 year veteran of the retail equipment market, Wincor Nixdorf
| began offering POS devices based on Red Hat Linux in the year 2000.
| The company's Linux-based "Beetle" POS device (early versions pictured
| above and at left) soon attracted some high-volume customers, including
| Home Depot and the Papa John's pizza chain.
`----

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5026396273.html


Wireless POS (Point of Sale) For Linux

,----[ Quote ]
| Research has shown that the number of POS (point of sale) terminals
| running Linux in North America has increased 80% since 2002. For
| hospitality providers, there?s good reason to go with Linux.
`----

http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=204


McDonald's pilots Linux-based electronic signage

,----[ Quote ]
| Fast-food chain McDonald's is reportedly piloting Linux-based
| electronic signage at a location in Chicago. The Golden Arches at Archer 
| Rutherford is using content-managed digital signage for menu-board
| promotion, dining- and play-room adver-tainment, and customer
| information collection, according to an article at SelfService.org. 
`----

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7373469582.html


Nando's goes Open Source

,----[ Quote ]
| Nandos has 230 restaurants nationwide and each restaurant is required
| to forward detailed information from their Point of Sale (PoS) system
| directly to head office on a daily basis...
`----

http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/16/11605.html


,----[ Quote ]
| Around 98% of the world's CPUs manufactured are used in embedded systems.
`----

http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com/?q=node/132


Four billion embedded systems shipped in '06

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3686249103.html


PCs being pushed aside in Japan

,----[ Quote ]
| The PC's role in Japanese homes is diminishing, as its once-awesome monopoly 
| on processing power is encroached by gadgets such as smart phones that act 
| like pocket-size computers, advanced Internet-connected game consoles, 
| digital video recorders with terabytes of memory.   
`----

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_hi_te/bye_bye_pcs


Linux to grow 278% in embedded/mobile/real-time apps

,----[ Quote ]
| Linux use in "next" embedded, mobile, and real-time projects will grow 278 
| percent over that in "previous" projects, suggests a recent survey by Venture 
| Development Corp. (VDC).   
`----

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7115758310.html

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index