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Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: LynuxWorks | Subject: BlueCat Linux POS
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 January 2005
Embedded OS aims for the point of sale
A new embedded Linux point-of-sale (POS) solution targets the worldwide retail market.
LynuxWorks has developed a new embedded Linux point-of-sale (POS) solution targeting the worldwide retail market LynuxWorks' BlueCat Linux POS enables retailers to take advantage of the flexibility, cost and time-to-market benefits of open source software with a uniquely constructed commercial embedded Linux operating system (OS)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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LynuxWorks' BlueCat Linux POS marks the company's first product offering targeting the retail industry and entry into this growing market.
The BlueCat Linux POS provides an implementation of the Linux model enhanced and scalable across a variety of POS system platforms, configurations and retailer environments to meet customer needs, from small console-based systems to larger, feature-rich and browser-capable systems.
Retail POS vendors can easily migrate to a stable and reliable Linux environment.
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This coupled with long-term support from LynuxWorks, gives retailers confidence to begin realising immediate productivity and optimised performance through the BlueCat Linux POS.
"We continue to see tremendous growth of Linux as it is quickly becoming the embedded standard in a number of industries, including the telecommunications and military/aerospace", said Dr Inder Singh, Chairman and CEO of LynuxWorks.
"Within the highly competitive retail market, there is significant opportunity as POS vendors and retailers turn to open source software to help reduce costs and complexity of POS systems".
"With more than 17 years of experience in embedded software, we are poised to meet this growing demand with our BlueCat Linux POS and provide significant value-add to POS retail customers".
POS systems are critical to the retail business infrastructure and facilitating business processes and retail efficiencies, including real-time product tracking, payment and profiling.
These efficiencies make or break companies which often have razor thin margins.
Linux is heavily being considered for POS systems to alleviate the costs of current OS infrastructures as retailers move beyond DOS and legacy POS systems and licensing fees for other embedded OSes.
The BlueCat Linux POS helps facilitate the seamless migration to Linux by offering the smallest memory footprint among any other POS OSes currently available on the market, enabling the BlueCat Linux POS to operate on older memory confined POS terminals.
"Our BlueCat Linux POS gives vendors the flexibility of a standards-based, hardened Linux offering that will help lower the costs and risks of in-house or roll-your own Linux OSes", said Bob Morris, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, LynuxWorks.
"In addition, vendors are looking for long-term support from a reliable OS provider".
"With our extensive experience in embedded software, customers can not only be confident to receive the level of support they need, but also implement a Linux distribution we believe will quickly become the industry standard for the POS retail market just as it has in several other industries".
The BlueCat Linux POS is available immediately directly through LynuxWorks.
Also available with the BlueCat Linux POS is a comprehensive set of tools for deploying Linux into embedded POS environments.
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