Another venerable PC software player, Cougar Mountain Software (CMS) was founded in 1982. At that time, Cougar was all about point-of-sale (POS) and the back-end accounting applications that support it. Today, however, the company has expanded into an effective mid-tier enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that’s bolstered by a wide variety of expansion modules that target other segments and verticals, including not only POS but also inventory management and others. For this review, I looked at a top-end version of Cougar Mountain Denali Summit that’s sold directly by CMS or through its dealer channel (with a base price of $275
The Domain Name System (DNS) is crucial to how your users experience the internet. Each time users need to reach a website, their PC needs to translate whatever they type in an address bar into an IP address. Problem is, most people can’t remember IP addresses so they’d rather type in the name of a website or other internet location by name.
So, after users type in something such as “PCMag.com,” their computers send that name out to a DNS server, which looks up the IP address and sends that address back to the users’ PCs. Once the computers have
