Linux cash registers

[zscoundrel]

IBM stock jumped up $3.26 today after 2 weeks of almost steady declines.

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: zscoundrel [mailto:zscoundrel at kc.rr.com]
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>>Here is a neat story about linux making inroads into another 
>>market niche!
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>>http://my.netscape.com/corewidgets/news/story.psp?cat=50380&id
>>=200209251640000204294
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> (IBM is using Linux for POS terminals.)
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> Old news.  POS Terminals have been running on *NIX for decades.  There was a
> brief flurry of Windows PC's running terminal emulators, but why pay $500
> for the software ($250 for Windows, $250 for Rumba) when you can run Linux
> instead?
> 
> (Hmmm, what's IBM's stock at today...)
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