F. Alfredo Rego wrote:
>
> Mind you, this was the industry's FIRST ticketless system.  To quote from
> Measure Magazine's article:
>
> "It was an astounding feat, given that no airline ever had developed such a
> system (ValuJet followed about a month later) and that Dave, armed only
> with a finance degree from the University of Utah, had never had formal
> computer training."
 
I hate to nitpick but that is not true.  Morris Airline was THE first airline
to have a ticketless airline reservation system.  However you could say
Southwest was first since they acquired Morris.  It was Morris MIS dept
that built the ticketless system for SWA.  On a minor note it is being
inducted into the Smithsonian for an innovative use of software.
 
>
> Dave is not sleeping on his laurels either.  Measure Magazine says:
>
> "He's developing an airline reservation system that will compete with the
> Sabre Airline System, the longtime industry standard owned by American
> Airlines.  It could be up and running in the next six months."
>
 
That us!  We also are selling our ticketless reservation systems to other
airlines using HP3000s.  And at the end of February we have another
industry first.  I will let you know what it is at the time it is announced.
 
 
> Oh, well.  I digress...   I hope the point is clear.  In this era of
> computer debacles, the story of Dave Evans and his successful HP3000-based
> system MUST be told to as wide an audience as possible.  I have done my
> best.  But I cannot do it alone.  Larger forces must exercise their
> muscles.
 
We are working on it.  We also just got award "Best In Class" channel partner.
HP marketing kinda of reminds me of a qoute from Cognos's CEO we need to
stop doing stealh marketing.
 
--
Later
Rabi Satter
Open Skies, Inc