Re: [mv] Using Interchange as a POS system

["birgitt" <birgitt@cais.com>]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Barney Treadway <barney@wttech.com>
To: <minivend-users@minivend.com>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: [mv] Using Interchange as a POS system


> ******    message to minivend-users from Barney Treadway <barney@wttech.com>     ******
> 
> As far as commercial viability, I feel that would be a given. I can't
> imagine many retailers who would not want to tie onsite and online
> operations together if it could be executed cleanly and quickly. We've been
> poking around with this concept as well but looking at developing a skinny
> and speedy php pos that would hit the same mysql tables that mv uses. Custom
> reporting would be simple and incredibly powerful using any number of report
> generation tools like Crystal Reports. With broadband becoming increasingly
> available and increasingly reliable the timing is right in several markets
> to give it a shot.
> 
> Just my 2 cents...
> 
> Barney
> 

I agree.

I am dreaming of something like that since 1997. I can't be the only person.
Why would someone want to colocate or let his site be hosted with a huge
anonymous company, when you could have everything under your own control ?

We do want to mind our own business, even if it's hard to learn. It's basically
affordable if bandwidth comes to your house/office/store (aside from the consultant fees
which seem to replace hardware and proprietary software as the costliest item
these days).

So, give us a chance and put something together which has open sources and good docs 
and can be bought at a reasonable price and gives us the option to build our own stuff. 
That's what counts. Gives your clients a feeling of achievement of having done something on
their own. If a package doesn't get to that point (without dumbing it down and hiding the
beef behind a GUI - don't document stuff which is obvious and leave out the stuff which is
not), it's not worth the time you have to invest in learning to build something with it.
 
Well, may be I am from Mars....I just don't understand what others are thinking....it seems
so obvious to me that this is very much needed. It's all about being capable of being 
independent and still make a living with your privately owned business, online and offline
combined. May be it's that nobody can think small anymore. The Germans would call it
"Klein, aber fein", something most people like to build, be proud of and make a living with.

Birgitt

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