From: "David E Jones" <david.jo...@hotwaxmedia.com>
On Jan 23, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Yes, I agree. I think I will definitively put some effort on this
side (WebPos I mean). This for this reason and the others being that
XUI is no longer supported and we have issues with it.
So it's not yet sure but I'm more an more thinking that the POS
component will be legacy on day ...
I doubt the current POS will ever be "legacy" or be abandoned,
although it depends on how many choose to use it.
Typically organizations want easier deployment, so a web-based
application is great for them.
In some cases things are very "mission critical", like getting money
from customers in physical retail locations. In those cases redundancy
and minimizing single points of failure is important. If the internet
goes down or even the network in the store, they want each cash
register to be able to run independently. For all but the smallest
retailers that's a mandatory requirement.
They could use the same mechanims with WebPos isn'it (a local DB synchronized) ?
Jacques
-David
