TCOnow! for Retail Store Solutions is a software tool that helps you decide whether you should use Windows or Linux for your Point of Sale needs. By answering a limited number of questions, TCOnow! will generate a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) comparison of Windows and Linux PoS systems. You can compare IRES Linux or Microsoft's XPe/WePOS running on IBM SurePOS client systems and Dell, HP ProLiant or IBM xSeries servers.

Point of Sale technology requires a substantial commitment, and it directly affects your ability to serve customers. This increases the importance of decisions on high availability, heterogeneous failover, and patch management. In this industry, the goal is to deliver new services at a lower cost, but a traditional financial analysis has a hard time accommodating a 10-year technology cycle. Once these issues are combined with the need to keep IT overhead per store as low as possible, it is clear that a custom-made assessment is necessary. CIOview’s software takes all of this into consideration and generates a full technical and financial business report for your needs. If you are trying to determine your optimal PoS system, then this is the product for you!

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