established and went on to sell thousands of copies of a Windows Point of Sale and Inventory package that is still used today by a large loyal customer base of high volume independent retailers.

Around the same time current COMCASH CEO Richard Stack was leading a publicly traded Point of Sale hardware business called Javelin Systems which he had founded in 1995. Like most POS hardware company leaders before and since, Stack was looking to diversify into higher margin services and software. In the late 1990’s the Cloud computing software model was emerging (then called Application Service Provider) and Javelin made some inroads in that space, building two data centers and managing the IT infrastructure and software hosting for several large restaurant chains.