Travelocity's parent company hails Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Sabre Holdings Corp., the $3 billion online network best known for Travelocity, has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as the corporate standard for its global ticketing and airline services businesses and will implement RHEL 5 in all future acquisitions.
Robert Wiseman, Sabre's chief technology officer, said the Southlake, Texas-based company began using Red Hat and other open source software about 2004. Red Hat now runs mission-critical online systems that collectively process as many as 32,000 transactions per second from three data centers in Tulsa, Okla., and one in Texas, he said.
The primary motive for moving to open source was the ability to access the code, he said. With transaction volumes as high as Sabre's, even small inefficiencies or errors in the code can slow down servers significantly, reducing overall capacity, he said. The IT staff needs to fix problems on the fly without waiting for vendor support, Wiseman said.
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