<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">
<html><head><style type="text/css"><!--
blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 }
--></style><title>Re: Windows is good advice for the consultants who
support</title></head><body>
<div>At 7:53 AM +0000, 1/14/06, Ian Collier wrote:</div>
<div><br></div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Or how about POS terminals? They're
not specialized vertical market. They're universal, and most of
them run on Windows. Where's the Mac software to do
that?</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Since you ask, this page provides a
snapshot:<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/mac/reviews/pos.shtml"
>http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/mac/reviews/pos.shtml</a></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I am not making any comments about the
features or quality of the tools listed in this review, but there are
clearly quite enough to choose from for most purposes.</blockquote>
<div><br></div>
<div>That's all well and fine for the retail store that is a stand
alone. But most stores are franchises. Look around you and what
percentage of stores are not? And the franchisor mandates what they
franchise uses. And the franchisor mandates a windows program.</div>
<x-sigsep><pre>--
</pre></x-sigsep>
<div><br>
<><><><><><><><><<span
></span
>><><><><><><><><><span
></span><><br>
Robert Ameeti<br>
<br>
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.<br>
<><><><><><><><><<span
></span
>><><><><><><><><><span
></span><></div>
</body>
</html>