I was planning on going the touchscreen route simply based on my perception that a cashier using a mouse looks very unprofessional.
Flash disks would definitely be great, but I don't know how feasible it'll be. On 4/17/07, Andrew Baudouin <andrewmb at gmail.com> wrote: > I wouldn't go with expensive terminals, I'd put commodity PCs booting from > flash disks if at all possible at the checkout. > > I have *some* POS experience and over the 10 years that I supported a > system, we had a few power supply failures but the real bugger was the hard > disk drives. A bookstore environment should be a little more sane than the > dusty dirty environment of a hardware store, though. > > I can't recommend any good software tailored for bookstores.... Do they > need touchscreens? > > > > On 4/17/07, Joe Fruchey < jfruchey at gmail.com> wrote: > > I think open source is out. I've been looking around some more, and > > while open-source POS systems exist, there are none that I see that > > have the full package that a bookstore would need?ISBN support, > > inventory searches and whatnot. > > > > Thanks. > > > > On 4/17/07, michael dolan < michaeldolan at gmail.com> wrote: > > > LSU's bookstore is now a barnes and noble - just FYI. > > > > > > > > > On 4/17/07, Brad Bendily < bendily at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 4/17/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com > wrote: > > > > > I would go see what all the campus bookstores use. > > > > > > > > Are you talking about college campuses? SLU uses a company called > > > > Follet that does everything as far as POS goes. > > > > > > > > Suse had a POS before Novell bought them, but it seems that Novell is > > > > still keeping it around: > > > > http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpointofservice/ > > > > Not that it's free, but it is OSS, I think. > > > > > > > > A quick googling brought up a few options: > > > > > > > > http://www.viewtouch.com/poshome.html > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.lynuxworks.com/products/bluecat/bluecat-linux-pos.php > > > > > > > > http://www.bananapos.com/pos/home.html > > > > > > > > Just a few there. I didn't even look on Sourceforge. > > > > > > > > bb > > > > -- > > > > Have Mercy & Say Yeah > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > General mailing list > > > > General at brlug.net > > > > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Michael Dolan > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > General at brlug.net > > > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
