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Installed Base of Linux POS Terminals Grows 35% in 2003

[Posted March 18, 2004 by cook]

The use of Linux for Point Of Sale (POS) terminals grew 35% in 2003, according to this press release from the IHL Consulting Group. ""We expect to see strong growth of Linux for several years to come but this is not necessarily good news for POS vendors," said Greg Buzek, president of IHL Consulting Group, an analyst firm and consultancy that serves retailers and retail technology vendors. "The retailers most likely to use Linux for the future are those retailers that currently run DOS on their POS systems and want to continue to keep their same hardware going forward.""

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SCO Drives Aways its POS Customers?

Posted Mar 22, 2004 18:06 UTC (Mon) by AnswerGuy (guest, #1256) [Link]

Could this acceleration be partially the result of SCOG driving away
its customers. We've heard elsewhere (repeatedly on Groklaw and in
ESR's missives and amicus juriae filings) that POS has been the bastion
market for SCO UNIX.

With their company almost entirely engaged in litigation SCOG has had
no resources to devote towards maintaining those customer and reseller
relationships. Disenfranchised SCO users must be going SOMEWHERE for
their needs.

The article mentions DOS but I question how many of those POS systems are really DOS. Alternatively, perhaps there are SCO servers and PCs running DOS and terminal emulation software as the clients.

Perhaps I'm just looking for that thorn in SCOG's flank though.

JimD

SCO Drives Aways its POS Customers?

Posted Mar 31, 2004 3:27 UTC (Wed) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599) [Link]

The article mentions DOS but I question how many of those POS systems are really DOS. Alternatively, perhaps there are SCO servers and PCs running DOS and terminal emulation software as the clients.

If I'm not mistaken, quite a number of them are running FlexOS, which I think I once heard described as some sort of DOS derivative. I have no direct experience with it myself, however, so take it with a large hunk o' salt.

Greg