Originally Posted by
nevansm
I'd agree with many of your statements except that there are 1000's of busineses today that are performing the same logic on vastly superior systems. The idea of single state is NOT new or even airline centric. You're got to be kidding yourself if you think the airline industry is THAT unique. This isn't new or ground braking.
Want an example in the airline industry? How do GDS's some distribute inventory and fare invormation with any (that I know of) interruption in many many years?
Distriubuted mainframes. It's possible. Let's stop this idea of delta is smarter than IT. they aren't. It's proven. They need better people (no more dissimilar than IT organization when this happens).
The GDSs don't hold the inventory, they are connected to the airline reservations systems and when you book with the GDSs it writes your reservation to the same monolithic airline reservation application on the back end we have been talking about being down all day.
If it was as easy as putting it in the cloud the airlines and banks would have done it. If you are so convinced that the problem of stateful active active over high latency for sequential immediately consistent transactions is trivial you should start a software company.