Gabe Goldberg wrote: > Time to get real about real-time airfares > The Navigator • By Christopher Elliott on Sunday, August 4th, 2013 > > You don’t have to be a consumer advocate to see that how you buy airline > tickets — indeed, how you book travel in general — is stuck in the > technological Dark Ages. If the various factions within the travel industry > truly cared about innovation, they would have abandoned their antiquated > mainframe reservations systems decades ago, when other industries embraced a > little thing called the Internet. You might be surprised to learn that your > electronic ticket reservation continues to be made on technology developed > four decades ago. > > http://elliott.org/the-navigator/time-to-get-real-about-real-time-airfares/ > > Has couple reader comments about mainframe reality; needs more.
Don't forget that seat allocation HAS to be done single-thread; Some tasks are harder to perform in a parallel fashion... though, perhaps, that might lead us back to over-booking. Obviously there are ways to break it out by, say, ensuring that certain seats are handled by specific systems... but managing and administration of this resource distribution would likely be a little bit hard to pull off. Also... #1 of the features of a main-frame: "Maximum RELIABLE Single-Thread Performance". It doesn't have to be fast, it has to be RIGHT (sound almost like a Mycroft system "owned" by the Lunar Authority, don't it?). -soup -- John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot com MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows "It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors; Regardless of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail because, somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
