On Jun 18, 9:58 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Specsavers opens eyes to open source
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> | The group aims to have made the same transition across all its 960
> | stores with Redhat, a version of the Linux open source operating
> | system, being used to run its retail computer terminals. Four
> | thousand of these have been transitioned so far, with another
> | 4,000 still to be done in other countries.
> |
> | Its point of sale machines will also be moved to Linux, as will
> | the servers running its stores and regional headquarters. The
> | firm's large-scale data centre in Guernsey will be running Sun
> | Solaris. It has also invested in an open source accounting
> | package to run its financials outside the UK, which it is under
> | an agreement not to name. The UK system won't change, said Khan,
> | because he believed that "if it ain't broke, you don't fix it".
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/14/specsavers_open_source/
They obviously have vision.
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