False statement from POS Solutions

mark on February 21, 2008 6:15 AM

So it was good the newsagency industry adopted our invoice files as a standard for the industry invoicing.

This statement was published by Bernard Zimmermann or POS Solutions yesterday. It is false. The newsagency industry did not adopt POS Solutions file formats as a standard. The standard was developed through a broad consultation process involving newsagent suppliers, software companies and external IT consultants.

Why give focus to a competitor? In this online world publishing anything, even something false, gives it credence. I’d rather give a competitor some focus and correct a false statement than leave it there without challenge.

2 Comments ↓

#1 bernard on 02.21.08 at 1:57 PM

mark, you know as well as i do that pos solutions was a leader in this and tower followed sometime later, with reluctance. bernard

#2 mark on 02.21.08 at 4:03 PM

Bernard, Your statement is false. The industry did not adopt your standards. You passed software compliance testing around a year after we passed. VANA recognised our leadership in passing first with an award for Tower Systems at their Newsagent of the Year dinner.

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