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On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:10:43 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> Actually booking the seats and
> selling tickets stays on a mainframe or an Oracle system because double
> booking or giving away free tickets would be really bad.

Fun fact: double-booking happens all the time.

I don’t think either mainframes or Oracle are still dominant in this sort 
of business. After all, Paul Graham’s Orbitz was doing this sort of thing 
over 20 years ago ... in LISP.

<https://paulgraham.com/carl.html>