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ktulu wrote:Oh, the other reason for windows, most people are familiar with that OS, which is why many companies go with it on the front end.

Oh? I though it was for Minesweeper and Solitaire....

And Disney uses nothing but Windows as all the software you get for POS and such is literally ALL windows based. Heck, the ticketing POS is a HUGE package that runs on Windows only. But I wouldn't mind it all being Mac...

Mad Maxx wrote:Oh? I though it was for Minesweeper and Solitaire....

And Disney uses nothing but Windows as all the software you get for POS and such is literally ALL windows based. Heck, the ticketing POS is a HUGE package that runs on Windows only. But I wouldn't mind it all being Mac...

If the DB uses a browser as the front end then it'll be platform agnostic.

hobie16 wrote:If the DB uses a browser as the front end then it'll be platform agnostic.

I agree with you in theory...

Mad Maxx wrote:Oh? I though it was for Minesweeper and Solitaire....

And Disney uses nothing but Windows as all the software you get for POS and such is literally ALL windows based. Heck, the ticketing POS is a HUGE package that runs on Windows only. But I wouldn't mind it all being Mac...

I had figured the POS software was written by Disney. It would make sense for it to be. Do you use MATRA over there or something else?

I'm surprised the POS software isn't written by Disney, hell AutoZone has it's own POS software and it runs on *nix. Just the merchandise part of Disney is much larger than AutoZone so it isn't because the numbers don't make it worth it.

Most of Disney's stuff is off the shelf and then highly customized. Just check on Careerbuilder.com to see what WDW is looking for in programming this week.

Shorty82 wrote:I had figured the POS software was written by Disney. It would make sense for it to be. Do you use MATRA over there or something else?

I'm surprised the POS software isn't written by Disney, hell AutoZone has it's own POS software and it runs on *nix. Just the merchandise part of Disney is much larger than AutoZone so it isn't because the numbers don't make it worth it.

We use MATRA over here, as well. For Foods at least, there are a few differences (we don't have 500 types of discount buttons, for example), but the underlying concepts and procedures are the same.

As for the ticketing POS (well, the Ticketing SYSTEM. Its the POS, the Turnstile software, the leads control software, ect) are a package called Galaxy. It does EVERYTHING for ticketing. And then the printers are all thermal BOCA Systems printers (same things that print the FastPasses) except for the Annual Pass printers (EVOLIS brand Dye Sublimation things that looks like little alien pods). It is really a crazy system. The only thing that the software doesn't do is all the various cash reporting that we have to do at cashout. We use some of the in-house made stuff for that.

Shorty82 wrote:Do you use MATRA over there or something else?

Stores have been blessed with MATRA for exactly 2 yrs. Much easier to count out @ closing, but when WDW MATRA goes white we're down too. Maybe not always, yet ratio is high.

Main Streeter wrote:Stores have been blessed with MATRA for exactly 2 yrs. Much easier to count out @ closing, but when WDW MATRA goes white we're down too. Maybe not always, yet ratio is high.

Yikes! So what do you do when they go down? Manual receipts and credit card forms?

Only time I can remember our old IBM registers going down (which I think ran on DOS) was when we had a power outage at DLH that exceeded the 30-minute limit of the UPS.

Mad Maxx wrote:As for the ticketing POS (well, the Ticketing SYSTEM. Its the POS, the Turnstile software, the leads control software, ect) are a package called Galaxy. It does EVERYTHING for ticketing. And then the printers are all thermal BOCA Systems printers

Cool, I work on BOCAs here at my place of business (We also run two theaters which use those for ticketing..) They are pretty darn durable machines as far as I've seen. However, we don't have quite the volume of printers the WDW has.. :D: