{"id":72,"date":"2004-11-17T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2004-11-17T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=72"},"modified":"2004-11-17T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2004-11-17T20:43:42","slug":"circuit-city-goes-linux-for-ibm-pos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/circuit-city-goes-linux-for-ibm-pos\/","title":{"rendered":"Circuit City goes Linux for IBM POS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>great pun for the article title &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfo.com\/article.cfm\/3373573\/c_3375606?f=magazine_featured\">The Seven Year Niche<\/a>. a story from CFO on open source. purse string holders are thinking about Linux if CFO is writing about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We evaluated Linux in 1999 and didn&#8217;t feel it was ready for prime time,&#8221; says Mike Jones, senior vice president and CIO at retailer Circuit City Stores in Richmond, Virginia. &#8220;It has come a long way since then, and our confidence has increased.&#8221; So much so, in fact, that Circuit City has launched a project to roll out Linux-based point-of-sale systems from IBM at its 600 nationwide retail outlets beginning in March. The strategy is part of a &#8220;revitalization effort&#8221; that will move its stores from customized, proprietary systems to software based on open standards, says Jones.<\/p>\n<p>This story is interesting because many retailers, like banks, are currently considering branch infrastructure refreshes. IBM is quietly and gently encouraging customers to move to Linux-based systems, rather than using legacy proprietary 4690, Microsoft Windows or even DOS systems. Microsoft has stepped forward with its own <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/embedded\/getstart\/devplat\/pos\/default.aspx\">Windows XP Embedded for Point Of Service<\/a> line, and the two will be fighting it out bitterly in customer accounts over the next couple of years. Retailers are getting savvy to point of sale mobility&#8211;thus Woolworths in the UK, for example, will use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epaynews.com\/index.cgi?survey=&amp;ref=browse&amp;f=view&amp;id=1095081943622215212&amp;block=\">wireless chip and pin systems<\/a> at Christmas to reduce customer queues without having to install new registers.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft calls it point of service. IBM calls is point of sale. One thing is for sure&#8211;the <a href=\"http:\/\/retailindustry.about.com\/library\/bl\/02q1\/bl_ihl032402.htm\">this is a major growth opportunity for IBM and Linux<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>great pun for the article title &#8211; The Seven Year Niche. a story from CFO on open source. purse string holders are thinking about Linux if CFO is writing about it. &#8220;We evaluated Linux in 1999 and didn&#8217;t feel it was ready for prime time,&#8221; says Mike Jones, senior vice president and CIO at retailer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-1a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}