Good article - as a long-time vendor in this space, we have noticed that our customers fall into two categories - Type C and Type S. Type C wants the lowest cost solution that will help them check the box against PCI compliance. Type S looks at PCI as Information Security 101 and tries to use PCI to really improve the security of their infrastructure. Unfortunately, the Type Cs far outnumber the Type Ss today.

For those that wish there was a more inexpensive answer to the $64,000 question (is the PoS in-scope for PCI) for a lower price, please check out Solidcore's product that provides bulletproof security for the PoS systems (http://www.solidcore.com/solutions/security/retail-pos.html)