Finally the magazine distributors have started to get serious about IT compliance in newsagencies through their XchangeIT platform. Their presentation today made it clear that DOS is dead. For all their bleating that DOS has a life, POS Solutions has been ignored and their remaining 300 DOS users will have to make alternative arrangements to get access to the technology suite other newsagents will be able to access. The announcement at the ANF Convention today is long overdue.
Of course, I am pleased because our Tower Systems newsagents community of 1,500+ is well placed. I feel for the 300 or so newsagents using DOS software. It should not be a surprise that DOS is dead because Microsoft an others turned their back on this old old platform more than ten years ago.
did anyone remember to invite bill express to the anf conference????remember by all accounts, a number of newsagents do very well from their bill paying arrangements!!!!
i suppose once each hard day of conferencing is over all concerned will be sharing a few drinks and some great yarns!!!
One can only imagine how the presence of Bill Express representatives at the confrence would turn out.
I can see the headlines tomorrow … VIOLENCE ON GOLD COAST – NEWSAGENTS TURN ON SUPPLIERS.
That would be a first – newsagents making the front page of the publications they sell.
Oh, and amidst my rambling I forgot ….
Good on XCHANGEIT. At least one supplier publicly has made the platform benchmark clearer.
It is rather hypercritical of the distributor owners of XchangeIT to rate DOS when they themselves use old COBOL and WANG-style systems that are at least as old as DOS.
Anon, no. Corporate systems cannot be viewed in the same way as PC based systems. That aside, the only DOS software – from POS Solutions – does not meet industry standards and this is the problem. Mark