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[Pedro Manuel Baeza Romero <pedro.baeza@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, but the problem is when you don't have access to the PosBox
(disconnection for any reason, for example in a very large restaurant - or
outside installations - where you don't have data coverage), or you don't
have PosBox at all...

Regards.


2013/10/30 Ray Carnes <rcarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Agreed.  Good suggestion.
>
> You need a CRAZY SMALL amount of resources.
>
> 512MB of memory would probably be enough for UBUNTI + POSTGRESQL + OPENERP.
>
> These day's even a phone has more memory than that.
>
> Ray.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Openerp-community [mailto:openerp-community-bounces+rcarnes=
> ursainfosystems.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Martin Collins
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 8:14 AM
> To: openerp-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Openerp-community] The Future of the Point of Sale
>
> On 2013-10-30 08:28, Frédéric Van Der Essen wrote:
> >
> > Offline mode is an interesting feature, but it has a very
> > very high cost on the complexity and evolution of the pos. That is
> > because supporting something offline means that we have to implement it
> > in javascript in an interoperable way with the server.
> ...
> > So there will always be feature available on the server and missing on
> > the POS.
> ...
> > Supporting a large number of products (> 16 000) is currently made very
> > difficult by the fact that browser database do not support full text
> > search and thus we are limited by the performance of javascript search.
>
> Have you considered running an instance of openerp-server on the posbox
> and using postgres replication to sync with the main server when online?
> Crazy? Not as crazy as rewriting it in javascript...
>
> Martin
>
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