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but i couldn't find much information with a search.
here's the deal. my crappy-part-time-job-while-at-school is at a local liquor store. the owner has recently discovered i'm good with computers, so i've been doing some maintenance on the register computer, which is a dell with microsoft POS software on it (also windows, which is a different kind of POS...).
the store is moving to a much larger location next door, and boss man wants me to do install the network and POS systems. it's my guess that he is trying to save money by having me do it instead of hiring a company, because he mentioned having a server, and i don't think he knows enough about computers to know what that is, i'm guessing he heard it from a company.
so, we will have up to 3 register stations, and he wants a server, likely to store the inventory database. so my question is, how can i handle this? i dont really know what his budget is, apart from "keep the cost down, but whatever it is, it is, we just gotta do it". so my initial plan is, buy 3 POS systems from HP, and use the current POS computer (P4 northwood 2.8 GHz, 256 MB ram) as the server. this P4 would be plenty fast enough to host the database, there would only be 3 registers going at once.
do i sound like i'm on the right track? i've set up small networks before, but never for a business. it's not difficult to connect to a database through a network is it? the server will be running ms sql server. i know i'll be able to figure everything out, but i can't have all the time in the world to do it, as we close this store on may 15th, and open the new one june 1st, and i really only work here part time. any help or advice is much appreciated.
here's the deal. my crappy-part-time-job-while-at-school is at a local liquor store. the owner has recently discovered i'm good with computers, so i've been doing some maintenance on the register computer, which is a dell with microsoft POS software on it (also windows, which is a different kind of POS...).
the store is moving to a much larger location next door, and boss man wants me to do install the network and POS systems. it's my guess that he is trying to save money by having me do it instead of hiring a company, because he mentioned having a server, and i don't think he knows enough about computers to know what that is, i'm guessing he heard it from a company.
so, we will have up to 3 register stations, and he wants a server, likely to store the inventory database. so my question is, how can i handle this? i dont really know what his budget is, apart from "keep the cost down, but whatever it is, it is, we just gotta do it". so my initial plan is, buy 3 POS systems from HP, and use the current POS computer (P4 northwood 2.8 GHz, 256 MB ram) as the server. this P4 would be plenty fast enough to host the database, there would only be 3 registers going at once.
do i sound like i'm on the right track? i've set up small networks before, but never for a business. it's not difficult to connect to a database through a network is it? the server will be running ms sql server. i know i'll be able to figure everything out, but i can't have all the time in the world to do it, as we close this store on may 15th, and open the new one june 1st, and i really only work here part time. any help or advice is much appreciated.
