[plug] Found another business using Linux

[Chris Caston]

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 17:56, James Devenish wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
I meant what I said.

regards,

Chris

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