Hi Lee,

> We just installed our company's POS software recently at a large resort. I
> posted about this project recently in this list. I was so pleased with some
> news that I received today, that I thought it appropriate to share it with
> the list.
>
> Right now is a very busy time at this client site because of a yearly event
> taking place at this resort which is very popular. This site has:
>
> * FB1.5 On 2Ghz P4, SCSI, 1 Gig RAM running on Win2003.
> * 35 POS terminals positioned around the property at various bar, restaurant
> and kiosk profit centers.
>
> Networking (believe it not) is 10/100 Cat 5 and some of the runs are pretty
> long. Personally, I thought they should have gone with Fiber...
>
> At any rate, today was one of the busiest days of the year. There was a
> over 18,000 sales transactions posted today and the system didn't even
> blink! To me, that is an incredible amount of data/activity. Just imagine;
> each sale involves an average of say, 5 line items for over 90,000
> additional inserts. And that is not even counting database activity for
> discounts, voids, employee clock ins, back office work and reporting,
> payment tenders and all the other peripheral activity including thousands of
> selects to present data to the users through touch screen GUI.
>
> I'm smiling like a cheshire cat....

Wouldn't that be a great base for an "official" success story
or case study?

The FirebirdSQL Foundation committee discussed the need for
such success stories several times, to increase the credibility
of the Firebird project in public.

I'm sure, the Foundation or IBPhoenix would be glad to
get a more detailed case study, if you are able/allowed
to provide detailed information, and if you have some
free time to cook one up. ;-)

Best Regards,
Thomas Steinmaurer
Former FirebirdSQL Foundation Committee Member

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