[1] During its run, IBM Retail Store Solutions had several product lines, both hardware and software.
Hardware products included IBM SurePOS 700 point-of-sale systems or printers.
IBM won the 2008 Point of Sale Green Excellence of the Year award.
[5] IBM IRES (IBM Retail Environment for SUSE LINUX)[6] retail functions such as those provided by IBM's 4690 features, including Server-based POS loading and booting, Industry-standard system-wide configuration and change management, Automatic problem determination with single-step dump button support, Combined server/terminal support, Client preload GUI and Remote Management Agent for systems management support.
IBM IRES is also used with Triversity's Transactionware Enterprise[10] and, it is the first Java POS solution designed from the ground up to harness the power of J2EE in retail.