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Gene, I wanted to thank you for your time on Saturday; that was a session for you! The menu looks very good. The general reaction of all our people is WOW ! They are impressed and will welcome ViewTouch because it helps them in everything they do. I am confident we can do anything with this system. The authoring tools are very clean and easy to use = simple. Thanks Again !
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This is UNIX? All Graphical like that? I had NO IDEA UNIX had better Graphics than Windows ! So that's what ViewTouch does? I always thought that the only thing wrong with UNIX was that it it wasn't GRAPHICAL ! You guys have fixed the only thing missing with UNIX - Great Graphics! How long will it take you deliver my ViewTouch POS from the time you get my check?
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ViewTouch has been absolutely reliable. It never leaks memory and needs to be rebooted. It just works and works and works. And the kitchen crew LOVES the 17" touch display with enhanced text. Everybody can see what needs to be done for each ticket, even if they're fifteen feet away from the display. It saves so many steps, prevents so many screwups, and saves so much time. They can't imagine working without it.
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We only have ten tables and very often they're full. Now, though, instead of watching customers walk away because we're full, we meet them right at the door, take their order on the ViewTouch wireless tablet and invite the people to sit comfortably in their car or in our picnic area while we get their order started and find them a free table. We'll put up a tent outside if we have to so that we can handle the business we get now - business that we used to lose.
In The News
Open: The Strategic Guide To Open Source
A restaurant proprietor is reborn as a software developer for Linux & Free BSD and leads a continuing revolution in graphic touchscreens for eateries.
Associated Press: USA Today
Biz Report
Waitresses go from table to table toting mobile terminals the size of a slim book and take orders by pressing color touchscreen buttons.
Via Embedded Technologies
Belnet Hotspot Wireless POS
Wincor-Nixdorf BEETLE iPOS
Transcontinental Canadian Rollout
VIA
Embedded Technologies Power ViewTouch's POS PlatformIA Epia Platform for the Next Generation of Point of Sale
Designed as a cool processor, the VIA C5P processor boasts the world's smallest x86 processor die size and advanced 0.13 micron manufacturing process, while delivering ultra low power consumption, hardware-based Advanced Encryption Standard and world class levels of stability. Features include 192KB Level 1 and Level 2 full speed cache, as well as support for a 100/133MHz Front Side Bus and MMX(tm) and 3DNow! multimedia instructions, to ensure robust levels of performance for all the most popular mainstream software and Internet applications. Pricing information is available on request.
Combo highlights true power, flexibility of next-generation Free Software solutions
ViewTouch, Inc. President, Gene Mosher, cites the versatility of Epia's dual XGA and S Video display as major elements in his company's selection of the Epia platform for its customers.; Via designed the Epia platform to be "an open hardware platform for such state-of-the-art vertical markets as P.O.S.".; "What a perfect match; Epia not only meets but exceeds its design targets".; "VIA's innovative designs and manufacturing, combined with ViewTouch's leading-edge POS and Enterprise Management features, and the result is an unbeatable combination of functionality, flexibility, and reliability".
The Donato Group of Toronto, Ontario, Canada has selected ViewTouch and the VIA Epia as its 200-unit, enterprise-wide solution, encompassing sites in Canada, Australia, New Zeeland, the UK, Italy, and even in several Arabian countries.; "The use of UNIX/Linux makes remote management and support of the software in locations anywhere in the world as easy as; a walk in the park", according to Mosher.
About VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA Technologies, Inc. is a leading innovator and developer of PC core logic chipsets, microprocessors, and multimedia, optical storage, communication and networking chips. VIA delivers value to the PC industry by designing, marketing, and selling high-performance VIA Apollo core logic chipsets for the full range of PC platforms, and cost-effective VIA C5P processors for Value PCs and Internet Appliances, as well as developing complete solutions for the PC platform through its VPSD Business Unit. Its customers include the world's top OEMs, mainboard manufacturers, and system integrators. VIA is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, at the center of the Greater China high-tech manufacturing engine, and has branch offices in the US, China and Europe.
Belnet
activates the first comprehensive Secure High Speed Wireless Public
Internet Access in a Canadian Mall
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 10/24/2002 - The hottest topic today in IT is Wireless Public Hot Spots, the technology is currently aimed at mobile workers needing to network with co-workers, consultants and sub contractors. Most workers today are mobile to some extent and the freedom of wireless computing equipment is driving up productivity and reducing requirements and costs on real property.
Belnet has partnered with ViewTouch to assist with implementing truly useful applications. The Wireless equipment at the World Exchange Plaza (in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) will make available to the businesses in the Plaza, a new generation of Internet based graphic touchscreen software applications, these enhance the general benefits of the new Wireless Internet. The catalog of remotely managed, world-class wireless software services available to the Plaza's businesses include point of sale, order entry inventory management, cash management and accounting. This new generation of turnkey Wireless Internet software greatly reduces the cost and the complexity of automating business processes by leveraging the new wireless network with the benefits of the acclaimed ViewTouch graphic touchscreen interface, the World Wide Web, and the GNU Project's free software.
"The combination of ViewTouch and the Belnet Wireless Internet, for the first time, provides a real answer to our needs that technology first be useful, affordable and easy to use, no matter who we are, but especially if we are among the businesses in the Plaza's retail environment." said Gene Mosher, President of ViewTouch.
About
Belnet Communications, Inc. Belnet
Communications inc. is a structural cabling and network solutions
provider with headquarters in Ottawa On. And operations across Canada,
employing more than 50 full-time, part-time
and contract staff. Founded in 1985 as a local cable installer Belnet
has steadily moved into the computer networking business, now with a
mandate to design and offer any network connectivity solution available.
About
ViewTouch, Inc. ViewTouch
is the company which pioneered graphic touchscreen point of sale for
the food and beverage industry in 1986. ViewTouch is the only world
class, turnkey solution for the food and
beverage industry which is written specifically to exploit the remote
user
capabilities of The X Window System, FreeBSD and Linux.; ViewTouch
wireless
P.O.S. is available now.; ViewTouch's sales & marketing office
is at 2300 Oakmont Way, Ste 202, Eugene, Oregon, 97401 (USA).;
Promotional or
volume discounts may apply in conjunction with this announcement.; More
information is available at www.viewtouch.com
ViewTouch
announces a Transcontinental Canadian rollout Donato Food Corporation is implementing ViewTouch POS with a 15 inch LCD screen and Celeron® processor in its restaurant brand, Made in Japan Teriyaki Experience. ViewTouch software and the Linux operating system have already been installed in 50 stores, with the remainder of the rollout scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. The ViewTouch systems are being used for kitchen display as well as order entry to speed service and create new efficiencies in production. The solution features dual-screen functionality using the integrated touch screen combined with a 15” flat panel display for marketing to customers at the point of sale.
“Donato Food Corporation had a strong appreciation for our vision for implementing Linux at the point of sale, and worked closely with ViewTouch to create a uniquely flexible, robust platform for their franchisees and company outlets, said Gene Mosher, president of ViewTouch. “Donato Food Corporation is a leading quick-service restaurant company and ViewTouch is pleased to work with Donato in implementing their next-generation POS solution”. ;
About
the BEETLE Family of IPOS Systems
With over 600,000 installations, Wincor Nixdorf’s BEETLE
family is one of the most prolific non-proprietary POS
platforms ever sold. With solutions that encompass thin-client POS
terminals, lean-and thick-client POS systems, kiosks, lottery
terminals, and mobile POS devices, the BEETLE family is the
industry’s most
comprehensive POS product line, addressing the complete spectrum of
customer touch points
in retail stores. An open design supporting commonality of components
across the entire BEETLE family substantially simplifies software
deployment and hardware maintenance, keeping costs down and
productivity high.;
About ViewTouch, Inc. ViewTouch is the company which pioneered graphic touchscreen point of sale for the food and beverage industry in 1986. ViewTouch is the only world class, turnkey solution for the food and beverage industry which is written specifically to exploit the remote user capabilities of The X Window System, FreeBSD and Linux.; ViewTouch wireless P.O.S. is available now.; ViewTouch's sales & marketing office is at 2300 Oakmont Way, Ste 202, Eugene, Oregon, 97401 (USA).; Promotional or volume discounts may apply in conjunction with this announcement.; More information is available at www.viewtouch.com
About Wincor Nixdorf Worldwide, Wincor Nixdorf, Inc. is one of the fastest growing providers of IT products and solutions for the retail and banking industries. Wincor Nixdorf’s offerings include hardware, application software, professional services, and a complete range of multi-vendor service programs including on-site support, depot service, advanced exchange, and performance-guaranteed supplies procurement. Wincor Nixdorf is the world’s third largest provider of POS systems and automated teller machines. Employing more than 4,600 people, Wincor Nixdorf operates in 70 countries with manufacturing plants in Germany and Singapore. North American headquarters are in Austin, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.wincor-nixdorf.com/usa.
BEETLE is a registered trademark of Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH. ViewTouch is a registered trademark of ViewTouch, Inc.; All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.