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Sadly, that's the reality of most of the travel tech. Lots of legacy software using proprietary protocols running on IBM mainframes.
by nnd 11y ago
Sadly, that's the reality of most of the travel tech. Lots of legacy software using proprietary protocols running on IBM mainframes.
- ghaff 11y agoSome of this old software is indeed very creaky. Look at all the problems associated with merging the Continental and United systems. (Which, from my understanding, still aren't 100% resolved.) However, this old software also needs to touch a huge number of other systems. You're not going to rewrite it in Go using a microservices architecture over a few months.
- nnd 11y agoTrue, that's why standardization in this area is very important. I'm very optimistic about IATA standards like NDC currently being adopted.