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You would be surprised how much has already been migrated away from the old IBM systems (TPF). The big players these days are Lufthansa, Jeppesen, Navitaire, Ap
by hourislate 10y ago
You would be surprised how much has already been migrated away from the old IBM systems (TPF). The big players these days are Lufthansa, Jeppesen, Navitaire, Appolo, Sabre, etc.
- tyingq 10y agoApollo is now Galileo. Galileo, Sabre, HP Shares, and Amadeus (the actual "Big 4" in this space) all still use the TPF operating system on IBM mainframes. They all are offloading functionality piecemeal, to more modern systems. But TPF is still at the core. You mentioned Navitaire. They are not using TPF...they use COBOL on Windows (not kidding). They do have a large list of airline customers, but none with a big fleet. Reportedly, it doesn't scale up well enough to serve a large airline. TPF also lives on in the financial world as well, like at Visa, for example.