>Uh, I remember seeing this story on the news, back when they started running
>with the ticketless travel.  We are not talking about a little blurb, but
>rather
>a feature story.  I also remember them mentioning at least twice, (not a large
>number of times, but not bad if you think about the level of publicity to this
>point) that the new system ran on HP3000s.  I was actually surprised that it
>took HP this long to put it into their own magazines!
>
>Kevin Newman
 
I missed this story on the news.  At any rate, this is a timeless story,
and a very interesting one, to boot.  Heck, it should be in the "human
interest" (or whatever) section of People Magazine or one of those grocery
check-out "Queriers". I can imagine the ghastly headlines:
 
"Lonely champion whose key to success was total lack of software knowledge
had no idea that his dream could not be implemented.  So, he did it."
 
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."
 
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."
 
Now, THAT will be a great story.  Who is going to be the lucky journalist
to report on that?  I hope I am, within the Adager Web pages and on the
multitude of media at the command of Adager Corporation's PR machine.  I
ran my first in-house-produced ad (congratulating Southwest Airlines) on
the fourth cover of Interact Magazine in April 1995.  I heard of the story
one day.  I thought about it at dinner.  It took me a few sleepless hours
to produce that ad, call the good souls at Interex at exactly 8:00am their
time to stop the presses, ship the 4-color plates to Donnelley via the
electronic superhighway, and have the whole thing ready just in time for
IPROF/95 at HP in Cupertino.  I then publicly asked HP management at IPROF
why it was like pulling teeth to get them to advertise the success of the
HP3000.  Why could Adager, a bit player in this market, do it (and do it
with pride and joy)?
 
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.
 
(Any larger forces listening?)
 
 
 
 
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