Take a look at the PC on your desk.
Chances are it's only a couple of years old.
Now take a look at the cash register while you're standing in the checkout line at a department store. In most cases, it's probably more than five years old and running on technology that dates back to the 1980s. But that's changing. The Musicland system will be used not only for the cash registers at Sam Goody but also at Musicland's Suncoast Motion Picture Co. stores, which sell videos and DVDs, and at its Media Play and On Cue superstores. When the rollout is complete, Musicland expects to have 7,000 POS terminals running Linux.