From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 27 0: 3:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ftf.dk (mail.ftf.net [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A75B14F64 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 00:03:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from regnauld@ftf.net) Received: from ns.int.ftf.net (fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged)) by mail.ftf.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/gw-ftf-1.2) with ESMTP id JAA28955; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:00:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.ftf.dk: Host fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged) claimed to be ns.int.ftf.net Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by ns.int.ftf.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) id JAA52945; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:16:44 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19990727091643.44383@ns.int.ftf.net> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:16:43 +0200 From: Phil Regnauld To: Doug Cc: Steve Rubin , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Point of Sale software References: <19990726205019.A30069@tch.org> <379D524D.53FD8463@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <379D524D.53FD8463@gorean.org>; from Doug on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 11:31:41PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386 Organization: FTFnet Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug writes: > Steve Rubin wrote: > > > > Anyone know of any point of sale software that runs under FreeBSD? > > As much as I love freebsd, 80-90% of POS stuff runs on OS/2, and is time > and battle tested. I really doubt that most businesses would be willing to > risk their livelihood on something new, on an OS they've never heard of. > But, good luck if you decide to do it anyway. You might want to search the > archives, this has come up before. I know of at least one supermarket franchise using them as in France. -- Divizion by Zero error -- multiplying by zero to recover. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message