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July 31, 2005
Cendant's Linux Trial's + Tribulations
There is a very good article over at CIO magazine on Cendant Corp's experience with Linux.
Mickey Lutz, CIO at Cendant Travel Distribution Services made a major gamble with Linux. Upgrading their application infrastructure on a mainframe to handle the transaction volume was expected to cose 100 million dollars. With 144 Linux servers they managed to transform their infrastructure, and save 98% of the cost. It involved rewriting the airline reservation system which runs Orbitz and CheapTickets.com, challenges with many different components, including the Linux kernel itself, but in the end reduced the upgrade cost to just 2.5 million.
Quite a success story, and the article is particularly good at showing expectations both from CIOs and IT and the real experiences and challenges they encountered. Very good reading for those contemplating such a shift.
Posted by admin at July 31, 2005 05:26 AM