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

[John]

Michael Shigorin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:10:34PM +0800, John 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.
> 
> 
> I don't mind them writing it there, it's just that infamous 
> "latest stable" Linux 2.6 is only getting somewhat stable this
> year.  I'd consider getting it on servers probably at the same
> old rule-of-thumb's 2.6.20... (been watching it on at least one
> host since 2.5.68)

RHEL and Fedora Core users seem happy with 2.6. I've been using it some 
time myself with no stability problems (except on my laptop and Id' not 
assume 2.4 would be better there),

> 
> 
>>Using mysql 5 might be a little like Unubtu pushing the
>>envelope. I'm not sure U fans should be casting stones here:-)
> 
> 
> Well I have a few friends in MySQL team and they keep telling 5.x
> is great and rock solid but I doubt they'd really recommend it
> for POS. (asked; the closer person's N/A right now)
> 
> Oh well.  Hope they'll not trigger any of the remaining bugs ;-)
> 
Well, _I_'d not use MySQL for POS, or willingly, for anything. The 
question arises on the sql-ledger list from time to time, and I side 
with those who don't thunk MySQL is up to it.

I had a discussion on a MySQL list some years ago, and the authors 
didn't understand why floating-point (real) numbers are not good for 
counting money <rolls eyes>.