I am trying to setup a Restaurant/Store solution with the minimum $.
Requirements:
4 customer service points (point of sales, each with ticket printers, cash registers, display keyboard and a mouse)
1 admin computer in the back office (to check the inventory, invoces, etc).
Since space is limited in the point of sales and not in the back office, I was thinking to offer:
- 1 Top notch computer, best processor to store the POS system and database
- 4 cheap basic computers for each point of sale.
All connected by LAN to access the POS Database.
QUESTION:
Is there a solution to create several Windows sessions from one computer?
That way I can save space on the sales points and money (instead of buying 4 cheap CPUs I will buy USB and VGA extenders for mouse keyboard and display and wire them 30ft away to the main back office super computer PLUS I will only pay one license for the software)
The POS system runs on Windows 7 (not sure if in WinXP).
Or maybe, I can buy the cheap computers with Intel Celeron J1900 to run a linux based system with Mono tu run the program (to save on Windows licenses and make them run faster)
