360Commerce to Demonstrate Freedom-of-Choice Inherent in Powerful Architecture Design.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Retail Systems Conference and Exposition Booth 211 AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2004 At the Retail Systems Conference and Exposition, May 17-20 in Chicago, 360Commerce, a leading Java-based store and enterprise software vendor, will display their software running on a wide variety of hardware, operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. and peripheral combinations, demonstrating the power of Java(tm) and of adhering to retail and Internet standards See Internet Engineering Task Force. . 360Commerce next-generation solutions will be running on IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) 4694, IBM SurePOS 500 and 700 series, Wincor Nixdorf Wincor Nixdorf (FWB: WIN) is a corporation that provides retail and retail banking hardware, software, and services. Wincor Nixdorf is engaged primarily in the sale, manufacture, installation and service of self-service transaction systems (such as ATMs), retail banking equipment Beetle, UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, Temps Universel Coordonné) The international time standard (formerly Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT). Zero hours UTC is midnight in Greenwich, England, which is located at 0 degrees longitude. 2810 registers, Intel X86 and SUN Spark-based servers and on the new IBM IRES solution stack In computing, a solution stack is a set of software subsystems or components needed to deliver a fully functional solution, e.g. a product or service. For example, to develop a web application, the designer needs to use an operating system, web server, database and . A variety of operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. will be running on these devices, including SUSE Linux A Linux distribution from the SuSE Linux division of Novell. Both consumer and enterprise versions are available, and the distribution includes several user interfaces. SuSE Linux comes with the Yet Another Setup Tool (YaST), which is used to install, configure and maintain the OS, as , Windows 2000 and Windows XPe. Attendees can view this one-of-a-kind exhibit at 360Commerce's booth No. 211. Because of the unique architecture and application design of their products, 360Commerce is able to demonstrate more hardware and operating system combinations than any other store solutions vendor to date. 360Commerce applications currently run on a wide range of operating systems, including IBM 4690, Linux, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , Windows XP, Solaris and Mac OS. Attendees at the Retail Systems tradeshow and exhibition will also have the opportunity to see demonstrations of 360Commerce's pure Java solutions in the Wincor and IBM booths. Part of 360Commerce's business philosophy includes embracing standards and open source options to enable retailers to leverage current technology investments and help them keep down the cost of new and future solutions. 360Commerce, widely known for their freedom-of-choice approach to providing retail software, has been a pioneer in the standards movement. Additionally, from the beginning, 360Commerce invested the time and money needed to build every store system solution they offer, including those used at the point-of-service, the back office and at the enterprise, on one solid, consistent Java platform. This has resulted in an industry-leading solution offering, which has attracted some of the most innovative thinkers in retail technology and some of the most successful retail enterprises, resulting in a best-practices solution and an unmatched technology offering. About 360Commerce From the point-of-service to the back office and across the enterprise, 360Commerce's J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. solutions capture and leverage operational intelligence in real time to provide retailers with competitive advantage. The vendor with the world's largest install base of Java point-of-sale customers, 360Commerce's industry-leading technology empowers retailers to increase profits through operational excellence and best-in-class customer service. Leading retailers on 360Commerce's customer list include Apple, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Circuit City, The Home Depot, Gap Inc., KB Toys, Kinko's and Rite Aid. 360Commerce applications include 360Store Point-of-Sale and Back Office and 360Enterprise Central Office and Workforce Management. On the Net: 360Commerce site: http://www.360Commerce.com Retail Systems site: http://www.retailsystems.com Trademarks: 360Commerce, 360Store, 360Enterprise and Unleashed are trademarks or registered trademarks of 360Commerce Inc. J2EE is a trademark or registered trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc. in the United States and other countries. |
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