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Xsilva Unveils LightSpeed 2 Point of Sale and Web Store for Mac OS X.


Universal Version of LightSpeed POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET.

(2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak.

POS - point of sale
 Unveiled with Web Store at Macworld Conference & Expo

SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  -- Xsilva Systems Inc today unveiled LightSpeed 2, a Universal version of Xsilva's next-generation multi-user Point of Sale system for Mac OS X. LightSpeed 2 features a tightly-integrated Web Store module, a revamped 'floating' Point of Sale interface, an all-new Browser browser

Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used
 with live previews A view of the final version of a document. Most applications automatically provide a live preview. As you make changes to the data on the page with regard to fonts, colors, placement, etc., the changes occur in real time. , and multi-store inventory lookups.

"With LightSpeed 2, we are pleased to introduce an Intel-native next-generation Point of Sale system for Mac OS X," said Xsilva CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Dax Dasilva. "LightSpeed 2 offers powerful new multi-user sales and inventory tools to retail and small business customers, and now integrates online tools that let businesses sell their products online without maintaining separate databases of products, images and orders."

"Apple offers an award-winning line of systems, software and support to help small businesses increase business productivity," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "We're thrilled that Xsilva has updated LightSpeed so that its small business customers can now take advantage of the power of our Intel-based Macs A Macintosh computer that is powered by Intel x86 CPUs, the same family of chips used in Windows and Linux PCs. See Mactel. ."

The LightSpeed Web Store lets business owners generate and maintain a fully-customizable PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution.  and CSS-based e-commerce site from their LightSpeed database with a single-click. Orders can be downloaded with a single-click and processed using LightSpeed's built-in credit card processing.

LightSpeed 2's popular 'floating' Point of Sale interface now features image previews of related accessories when ringing up sales, can perform multi-store inventory lookups, features customizable color themes, and can run video ads when idle.

The all-new Browser features live previews of products, customers and sales documents, including product and customer images that can be captured on-the-fly with an iSight camera. Browser searches are now based on leading-edge server-side SQL SQL
 in full Structured Query Language.

Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results.
 queries, meaning that vast databases can be browsed at lightspeed.

Pricing and Availability

LightSpeed 2 and LightSpeed Web Store will ship in February 2007 and can be purchased through an Xsilva-Authorized Reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers.  listed at www.xsilva.com/findareseller.php or online at www.xsilva.com/store.php. The LightSpeed Web Store will be sold separately as an optional module.

Customers that purchase LightSpeed 1.3.x now will receive a free upgrade to LightSpeed 2 upon availability. Customers with a current Subscription plan will be able to download 2.0 directly from www.xsilva.com at no additional cost. Subscription plan renewals are available at a 10% discount until the end of January 2007.

Please visit http://www.xsilva.com/ for more information.

About Xsilva LightSpeed

Xsilva LightSpeed is a ground-breaking new multi-user Point of Sale system built exclusively for Mac OS X and designed expressly to accelerate small business. Whether set up as a Point of Sale system in a retail environment or deployed to power an inside sales team, Xsilva LightSpeed harnesses the most powerful Mac OS X and SQL-based technologies to deliver unparalleled performance and reliability under its crisp, polished Mac OS X interface.

About Xsilva Systems Inc

Xsilva Systems Inc is based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and specializes in building high-performance SQL-based Point of Sale systems for Mac OS X. The Xsilva team, led by Xsilva Founder and CEO Dax Dasilva, is committed to its mission of building the most compelling and innovative Point of Sale system on any platform, through the cultivation of Xsilva's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation.  for Mac OS X, Xsilva LightSpeed.
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