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I'm sure there would at the very least be a very long transition. And even if the core program were kept as CL code, it could still be ported over to use a lot
by jsnell 17y ago
I'm sure there would at the very least be a very long transition. And even if the core program were kept as CL code, it could still be ported over to use a lot of neat Google infrastructure.
An even more pressing question: what would happen with QRES? Reservation systems don't seem like a business that Google would want to be in, but it was supposed to ITA's golden ticket. Is selling out at this point basically an admission that this decade's rewrite of all that old mainframe code didn't work either?
(Disclaimer: just my personal opinions, not speaking for anyone else).
- hga 17y agoMy guess about the problem with QRES is that after the Great Recession started the airlines that desperately want to escape their mainframe code bases now just don't have the money to do the conversion. I'm sure that's worse now with the Iceland volcano situation, which could be a money sink for many months in the future (more eruptions are possible, and this volcano has a history of triggering an eruption of a much bigger one). Dan Weinreb said there is a lot of interest in it (NOTE, seems to be gone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xquJvmHF3S8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xquJvmHF3S8), but that everyone wanted someone else to go first, and that was Air Canada, which suspended their participation after the recession started. At that point I can see the leaders of ITA exploring all possibilities to keep the company alive.
- jimbokun 17y agoI would say that selling out is an admission that $1,000,000,000 is a lot of money.