Linux Based Point of Sale?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jan 15, 2008, at 07:10, Brian Chabot wrote:

> Anyone have any experience in these or others?  Anything I should  
> steer
> away from?


I auditioned OpenTAPS a few months ago and wasn't blown away by its  
POS (java app).  It's an apache project, though, so perhaps it will  
gain some momentum.

I happened across this link:

   http://sourceforge.net/projects/ck-erp

which claims to have a POS, but I haven't looked at it yet.  OpenMFG/ 
Postbooks seems like a logical place to add a POS but I haven't seen  
it yet.

One thing I did find was a lack of modern or standards-based POS  
gear.  Given the choice between a cash drawer that runs on a barely- 
working windows driver or a cash drawer that has an RJ45 in the back  
so it can take a REST-ful HTTP command on its uclinux stack, you'll  
always find the former, or at least I did.

-Bill

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