Re: Costco still on IBM i?

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Would they know just from the interface?

On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was in Costco yesterday and noticed that the usual "green screen"
> interfaces were no longer there.  Nice GUI in it's place.    The Costco
> employee said she liked it better (she was doing returns) but as she
> demo'ed it seemed it was more the smart use of scanning devices
> (grabbing images, scanning the barcode) that she thought was "better"
> (although I am pretty sure those interfaces were already in use).
>
> The reason I ask is that about 15 years ago I was in a secure
> programming class with a couple of Costco developers that said they were
> moving off the platform.  Could they have finally moved?
>
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