I wonder how much that would cost per cart.  The reason I say that is, what
about all the carts that are left in the parking lot, or better yet, hit by
cars or "walk away" completely?  I would think that it would be tough to
create electronics that could take 116 degrees in Phoenix and -40 degrees in
Minnesota, or a couple of bumps in the parking lot.  Maybe the answer would
be that you are not allowed to take the cart into the parking lot at all,
but how else am I going to get all that "stuff" that I just bought out to my
car?  Maybe we go back to the time where someone actually walked out the the
car with you and helped you load your car.  Wouldn't that be nice!

It's a great idea, and I love the fact that they want to use Linux, but it
might be hard sell.

Mark Holbert
mark@linuxsoftware.org

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>moin, moin,
>
>There's a project to convert m$ wince app to Linux. It is financed by an
unnamed retail company of some sort and they needed coders to make it
happen.
>
>They want to install small portable computers on shopping carts. Each
computer will show position of the cart in the shop, keep calculating the
bills and run ads. It >is currently working with wince, but they'd prefer
Linux.
>
>All computers will have wireless connection to the main server which has
the data base and stores information about ads, etc.
>
>Rough estimate - 500 man-hours of work.
>
>For further info contact Sergey Nikitin, Sergey@m-and-s.com.
>
>PS A couple of years ago Sergey ported the JDK to Linux by himself and the
Blackdown Project needed to catch up to his work :).
>
>ciao,
>
>der.hans
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