[Home Depot’s new Java app’s may end up running on
Linux PCs–see related story link below. – LT ed.]
“The Home Depot Inc. is starting to roll out Java-based
applications to help run an emerging line of interior-design
showrooms that’s due for rapid expansion as a companion business to
the company’s flagship retail stores.
The Atlanta-based home-improvement chain this month began
piloting an electronic product catalog and order-entry system
that it developed for the Expo Design Center showrooms.follows
the June launch of another application that employees in the new
stores will use to track the progress of home-improvement
projects they’re coordinating for customers.
The new applications expand on Home Depot’s heavy investment in
the Java programming language, which it has used to develop systems
for things such as renting tools and preparing retail sales reports
for district managers.”