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Re: Point of Sale systems, and their back-ends

David Mackley — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:57:20 -0000

It uses an open source database, and the central servers are on open source platforms linux apache etc. The connect software is written in java bit not available open source... yet.

Re: Point of Sale systems, and their back-ends

anonimus — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:16:19 -0000

@David: Is the software open source or just the database? Their website doesn't say much about open source...

Re: Point of Sale systems, and their back-ends

David Mackley — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:09:27 -0000

Here is an open source point of sale system. This one uses the open source firebird database which originated as a borland product. It is very stable and very fast, this system uses it on every till and has a real time backup to a hosted firebird database on a linux server. Keeps the cost right down yet is very fast and reliable. Open source is definitely the way forward for retail software. :)

Re: Point of Sale systems, and their back-ends

Pin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:37:37 -0000

Too bad, the one in Sunway Mas do not have any power socket

Re: Point of Sale systems, and their back-ends

jim winstead — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:21:46 -0000

checkout, a very nice point-of-sale system for mac os x, uses postgresql.