Goals
The goals of UnifiedPOS are:
- Common device architecture that is international and extends across vendors, platforms, and retail format.
- Standards for application to device interfaces in an operating system independent and language neutral manner.
- Reduced implementation/development costs for vendors to support multiple (for example, Windows/COM and Java) platforms because they share the same architecture. This should produce speed to market for innovation.
- An environment avoiding competition between standards while encouraging competition among implementations.
- Allows retailers freedom of choice between OPOS and JavaPOS point of service devices.