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>But, hey, it's an airline: releasing software is not exactly their bread and butter. it's not pilots and flight attendants coding that application. they've go
by stefs 11y ago
>But, hey, it's an airline: releasing software is not exactly their bread and butter.
it's not pilots and flight attendants coding that application. they've got an IT department whose bread and butter IS releasing software.
- saryant 11y ago> an IT department whose bread and butter IS releasing software. I don't think you've dealt with UA much...
- kyllo 11y agoThe point is they don't get sufficient resources to do their job properly because they are seen as a cost center.
- BostonEnginerd 11y agoThis is a problem -- flying airplanes is almost secondary. Airlines are primarily logistics companies running entirely on software.
- kyllo 11y agoSort of, at least in that the airplanes would be grounded if the software didn't work. But this isn't unique to airlines. These big industry companies are lagging behind in technology and they always will, because they associate revenue to sales, marketing and account management, and they see business operations and IT as operating cost, and not a part of the product. And they have little incentive to change, because the low margins and high capex are barriers to entry that keep venture capital out.