Officials at global distribution systems — Travelport, Sabre and Amadeus — rave about their turbo-charged zTPF mainframes as they still at times labor to introduce products that consumers long have taken for granted. But, can GDSs still be “cool?”
And, does Travelport, in particular, have juice?
Mark Ryan, Travelport’s chief information officer, argues that there has been a cultural transformation at the company over the last few years and that Travelport now wreaks of coolness.
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