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Retail at OpenWorld - Part 2

By David Dorf on October 14, 2009 9:47 AM

As I described last year, Oracle Retail POS ran the bookstore at OpenWorld again this year. It's a great opportunity to see our software in action, as Jeff Grossman describes in this video. For some reason, this has been the...

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Point-of-Sale Decked out with Chrome

By David Dorf on July 8, 2009 12:00 PM

In 2004 Google left the comforts of search and advertising to try its hand at web-based email. The success of that product was followed by Google Talk, an instant messenger, and Google Docs, a web-based word processor and spreadsheet. In...

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Lean Retail Architecture

By David Dorf on January 7, 2009 5:15 PM

Last year about this time Cisco announced their Lean Retail Architecture, a network-centric (surprise!) approach to handling distributed systems. The main ideas are to centralize, virtualize, and optimize. Getting as many servers out of the store and into the data...

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Standards Reduce Integration Costs

By David Dorf on November 6, 2008 6:56 AM

The Association for Retail Technology Standards, better known as ARTS, is a subsidiary of the National Retail Federation. Its charter is to reduce a retailer's costs through the use of technology standards. ARTS has hundreds of retailer members, and along...

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Surf's Up with Oracle Retail POS

By David Dorf on November 4, 2008 6:53 AM

Our general manager at Oracle Retail gets jazzed about go-lives as much as he does new sales, so when the opportunity to visit Abercrombie & Fitch's first store to go live on our point-of-sale software, I jumped at the chance....

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WEPOS or Linux?

By David Dorf on October 29, 2008 4:45 PM

Retailers that have a Java-based point-of-sale (POS) have the distinct advantage of running on almost any cash register hardware. That puts them in a better position to negotiate with both hardware and operating system vendors. Another advantage is that they...

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