“World’s largest travel search and flight on-line booking
service runs on IBM’s DB2 Universal Database for Linux”
“Version 1 of deckchair.com, launched in April 1999 by Sir Bob
Geldof and James Page, needed a highly portable and scalable
solution to support Version 2 of its popular Web site, launched in
May this year. IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux from SuSe*
running on IBM Netfinity servers proved the perfect match and, true
to its reputation for innovation, deckchair.com has become the
first e-commerce Web site to adopt this ground-breaking new
platform.”
“Portability was crucial to the choice of technology as
deckchair.com CEO James Page explained: “Because Linux is an open
source software solution it has enabled deckchair.com to run on any
hardware configuration. This allows the company the opportunity to
look for a combination of best price/performance, hardware and
software.”
“Scalability was another critical factor in deckchair.com’s
choice of IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux. deckchair.com
offers all the major airlines as well as charter flights to give
the consumer the widest possible choice. Visits to the site have
doubled since the company started a national advertising campaign
and the deckchair.com team found that no other solution came close
to enabling their Java application to match this level of
demand.”