[aclug-L] InternetWeek Newsletter - November 10, 1998 (fwd)

[Dale W Hodge <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Retail Chain Buys Into Open-Source Linux OS 

Unbeknownst to the checkout clerk ringing up a pair of slacks, 
Linux will replace DOS as the operating system at Jay Jacobs 
stores nationwide next year.

The clothing retailer last week became the latest commercial 
user to adopt Linux, the poster child of the open-source 
software movement.

Starting immediately, Jay Jacobs will deploy an application 
suite on Linux in its 115 stores and at the company's 
headquarters. Scheduled to be completed by the end of next 
year, the project will replace a number of antiquated, 
homegrown DOS systems that use the Paradox database.

The new application suite was developed by Apropos Retail 
Management Systems Inc., which said it will save around 
$1,000 per site by using Linux, and will not have to pay an 
operating system vendor for a site license. Jay Jacobs said it 
will save in the "hundreds" of dollars per installation.

But cost savings was just part of Linux's appeal, according to 
Apropos officials. "As we drilled into Linux, we found it to be 
a very solid, reliable and high-performance OS," said Kent 
McNall, president of Apropos. By Ellis Booker 

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