{"id":456,"date":"2017-02-06T14:22:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=456"},"modified":"2019-01-23T07:46:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T13:46:42","slug":"2017-the-year-first-gen-cloud-pos-implosion-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/06\/2017-the-year-first-gen-cloud-pos-implosion-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"2017: The Year First-Gen Cloud POS Starts Imploding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We were going to publish this article at a later date, but with Revel <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/02\/06\/welsh-carson-takes-majority-stake-in-revel-scott-betts-replaces-falzone-as-ceo\/?ncid=rss\">already announcing the departure of their CEO <\/a>after a Welsh Carson\u00a0buyout we wanted to have something on record quickly so we could say, \"told you so.\"<\/em><\/p><p>When Revel was pushing an exit to IBM last August, we <a href=\"http:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/19\/what-revels-talks-with-ibm-mean-for-the-pos-industry\/\">thought to share our reaction<\/a>. Given how the deal was leaked leads us to believe it was Revel (ie Revel's investors) who were looking for an exit.<\/p><div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/log-in\/\">log in<\/a> to read the rest of this content.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were going to publish this article at a later date, but with Revel already announcing the departure of their CEO after a Welsh Carson\u00a0buyout we wanted to have something on record quickly so we could say, &#8220;told you so.&#8221;When Revel was pushing an exit to IBM last August, we thought to share our reaction. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-7m","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}