LinuxInsider: Open Source Catching On in Travel Industry

“A ‘perfect storm’ of forces is converging that will lead open
source to dominate the information technology systems of the travel
industry by 2007, according to Marc Fleury, founder, chairman and
chief executive officer of JBoss, headquartered in Atlanta.

“Fleury said that these forces include the increasing reliance
of the entire travel industry on e-commerce, the increasing costs
and diminishing margins all travel companies are facing and the
growing maturity of open-source software. Fleury said that this
‘perfect storm’ would eventually lead many travel companies to
reassess technology costs and associated benefits…”

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