[plug] Found another business using Linux

[Chris Caston]

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 14:59, Senectus . wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:20:10 +0800 (WST), Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Senectus . wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Laubman and Pank (in Hay st Perth) Use Linux as their dbase and POS
> > > system (apparently is a company wide SOE) and have a VERY nice setup
> > > with Compaq thin clients and what looks like a very heavily customized
> > > version of KDE as the Desktop GUI..
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > Ah, yes, but which DBMS? Are they using PostgreSQL, MySQL, Informix,
> > Oracle, or, MS SQL Server, or MS Access, running on WINE?
> > 
> Well I know its not any of the MS products.. the whole shop bar one
> machine is Linux and that one machine is NT4 and appears to be used
> for POS stuff...

Hm.. A linux POS migration sounds immanent. 

regards,

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