National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) have suspended merger talks.
National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) have suspended merger talks.
Previously it was announced that the NRF and RILA had agreed, in principle, to merge; however, this week the NRF president has indicated that the boards of both groups have decided to end merger discussions. Since the merger announcement, it was unclear, what, if any, impact this would have on the various ARTS initiatives. During this time, Microsoft has continued to remain an active member of ARTS especially as this pertains to the Unified POS standard specifications. Microsoft’s POS for .NET remains the best choice for .NET applications that wish to interface with POS peripherals in accordance with the UnifiedPOS standard. In order to help .NET developers learn more about POS for .NET and the Unified POS standard, we have recently created a new forum under the .NET developer community. The forum is available here:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/posfordotnet/
- Sylvester
