online article: world's first open-source Point Of Sale system uses Ubuntu

[John]

Michael Shigorin wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 10:58:02PM -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> 
>>MySQL 5 and PHP 5.
> 
> 
> *gasp*
> 
> "The Rise of 'Worse Is Better'" comes to mind.  Not that I think
> PHP is entirely evil or MySQL is meek but using beta versions for
> somewhat mission-critical applications is not going to help FLOSS
> credibility.
> 

Provoked, I cast my eye over the relevant websites. PHP% looks like it's 
the latest stable release.

Using mysql 5 might be a little like Unubtu pushing the envelope. I'm 
not sure U fans should be casting stones here:-)