Regarding the Licensing of two- Right now I have 5 computers on my network - 2 registers and 3 back office- I have a license for 3 (I have MS POS running on 2, and the back three or running administrator- for ordering etc). When I switch to 2.0 will I be hard wired to 3 computers? That my back administration will only have one computer that can access admin etc?
If so that is bad- Bring back the Dongel!
Thanks Brent
That is correct. RMS has some weaknesses, however they are being addressed over time. I have been in the cash register business for 35 years and have been selling/supporting POS for 20 years and for the money, I have found RMS to be the most stable POS software I have ever used. (SQL Server Express). I have supported customers using other POS software and they think it is normal to have to restart their systems several times a week during business hours. I have RMS customers who have never, over a year, had to do a restart during business hours. I think it is a reasonable trade-off. But then, that is just my opinion. Try using some remote software, some free, such as VNC to access the dedicated backoffice POS terminal or a frontend POS terminal that is not active at that time. I can also appreciate your frustration at having to loose functionallity rather than gain it.
Regards,
Kinnard
Kinnard L. Kohler Business Machines Systems
6101 South Shackleford Road Little Rock, AR 72204-8606 (T) 501-375-8380 (F) 501-375-0043 (Cell) 501-412-5686 Email: snipped-for-privacy@bmsar.com"Brent" wrote:
Regarding the Licensing of two- Right now I have 5 computers on my network - 2 registers and 3 back office- I have a license for 3 (I have MS POS running on 2, and the back three or running administrator- for ordering etc). When I switch to 2.0 will I be hard wired to 3 computers? That my back administration will only have one computer that can access admin etc?
If so that is bad- Bring back the Dongel!
Thanks Brent
But the one place where the new licensing is an impact is having a test system. Having worked in the IT industry for over 30 years and been a systems engineer for 15 of those supporting large mainframe systems, you don't put anything into production that you haven't tested.
I have a PC I use at home for this purpose. Weekly I transmit a copy of our database to the "test" system. With RMS 1.3, I can run everything without a problem. I never do any type of production work with the POS portion, but do do some testing. The warning of no dongle and running in evaluation mode for 30 days does not bother me.
Now at our store, we have 4 systems: the front register/database server system, one manager/backup-crowded back office manager/POS system, and two other manager systems (one of these is old and is strictly an intake system, where the other can be an emergency POS station if needed).
With this setup I have to "burn" a POS license key to either (a) have a test system at home to use whenever I need to, or (b) have a ready emergency POS system at the store. Why?
Why can't we have even a 7 day evaluation mode? This would allow periodic testing and have no impact on real production license keys.
But the one place where the new licensing is an impact is having a test system. Having worked in the IT industry for over 30 years and been a systems engineer for 15 of those supporting large mainframe systems, you don't put anything into production that you haven't tested.
I have a PC I use at home for this purpose. Weekly I transmit a copy of our database to the "test" system. With RMS 1.3, I can run everything without a problem. I never do any type of production work with the POS portion, but do do some testing. The warning of no dongle and running in evaluation mode for 30 days does not bother me.
Now at our store, we have 4 systems: the front register/database server system, one manager/backup-crowded back office manager/POS system, and two other manager systems (one of these is old and is strictly an intake system, where the other can be an emergency POS station if needed).
With this setup I have to "burn" a POS license key to either (a) have a test system at home to use whenever I need to, or (b) have a ready emergency POS system at the store. Why?
Why can't we have even a 7 day evaluation mode? This would allow periodic testing and have no impact on real production license keys.
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