John Burke wrote:
>
> FYI, HP has sold Open Skies (http://www.openskies.com/html/prapress.htm).
>
> To demonstrate how little it apparently meant to HP as a whole, despite all
> the glowing tributes on the HP Web site (e.g. 11/17/00 - "HP Open Skies is
> recognized as one of the fastest growing providers of airline reservation
> and revenue management solutions."), this did not even make it as a HP press
> release (searching hp.com yields nothing about the sale).
> One has to wonder why this did not fit into Carly Fiorino's e-everything,
> ASP vision anymore, unless it was a desire to avoid competing with potential
> customers? Still, I find the news disappointing.
>
> John Burke

Call me naive, but I actually see this as a positive development for
both Open Skies and the HP e3000.  Being purchased by a known Airline
industry player with a plan to develop and integrate the product into
a compressive e-services solution for Airlines sounds like a very good
thing.  They will add to the external, customer voices telling HP to
support and evolve the best business operating system and transaction
database available (MPE/iX with Image/SQL) and they will add validation
for the Open Skies product to Airlines skeptical about HP as a service
provider.

Richard
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