[plug] Found another business using Linux

James Devenish devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au
Tue Sep 7 17:56:31 WST 2004


In message <1094550743.2895.3.camel at localhost>
on Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 05:52:23PM +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> 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. 

What do you mean by that? "Immanent" is a word, perhaps meaning
"pervasive or intrinsic", while "imminent" is also a word,
perhaps meaning "likely to happen presently". Which is the slant
that you were looking for?





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