Travel companies are adopting open source software, which is leading to its domination in the industry, according to predictions.
“A ‘perfect storm’ of forces is converging that will lead open source to dominate the IT systems of the travel industry by 2007,” predicts Hotelmarketing.com.
“These forces — the increasing reliance on the entire travel industry on e-commerce, the increasing costs and diminishing margins all travel companies face and the growing maturity of open source software — will lead travel companies to re-assess technology costs and associated benefits,” it added.
The shift to open source and away from proprietary software is inevitable in an industry under pressure to cut costs, adds JBoss CEO Marc Fleury.
Report by David Wilkening
