POS•IM Software Knowledge Base

Beta

Beta generally begins when the software version is feature complete. The focus of beta testing is reducing impacts to users, often incorporating usability testing. The process of delivering a beta version to the users is called beta release.

Clients

A client computer connects to the server. It is a secondary or slave computer.

Java

Java is the programming language POSIM is written in. We chose Java because it is a modern, powerful and cross platform computer language.

LAN

Local Area Network

MySQL

MySQL is the database system that runs on your server computer providing multi-user access to your POSIM database. Basically this is the program that hosts, stores and serves the POSIM Database. We chose MySQL because it is modern, powerful and cross platform.

Release Candidate

The term release candidate (RC) refers to a version with potential to be a final product, ready to release unless fatal bugs emerge. In this stage of product stabilization, all product features have been designed, coded and tested through one or more beta cycles with no known showstopper-class bug.

Seat

A seat is a computer with an active database connection. If you purchased 5 seats then you may have up to 5 computer connected to the database at the same time.

Server

The server is a computer on your network that stores and hosts the database. Your POSIM database will only be on one machine and all the other computers connect to it over the network. Those computers are called clients.