I'm not arguing against "fit for purpose" -- IBM's current buzzword for
"use the best platform for the application". Of course, it's not clear
to me that one server/plane or ten servers per 10,000 seats provides the
mainframe's robust and responsive service. If that setup was more
effective/economical, wouldn't it be used? Same for wherever mainframes
are used, no?
My point is that mocking "antiquated mainframe reservations systems ...
technology developed four decades ago" makes as much sense as saying
that we shouldn't be driving today's cars because -- shockingly -- they
resemble cars of a hundred years ago, still having four tires, a
steering wheel, and gas/brake pedals.
He's not arguing on the merits, he's just saying that today's mainframes
and res systems were developed forty years ago, and he's wrong.
On 8/8/2013 18:46, Carey Tyler Schug wrote:
Well, unless we have airplanes with 200,000 seats per plane, the seat
purchase could be distributed, as long as each plane was on one server
at a time. or, a collection of 10 servers who lock on any one of
10,000 flights, book the seat, then release that flight maybe.
If a person is through booking several flights, an oversight program
would fire off bookings for each, then back them out if one failed.
Private, since this thread has gone far beyond this posting.
So, no, I would argue you don't need mainframes for booking flights.
It may still be better in some way because of needing less compute
power to distribute the work.
If you want to forward to the list, that is OK, including with your
argument why I am wrong.
--Carey
On 08/06/2013 01:36 PM, 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.
--
Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected]
3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433
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