Expedia chooses Progress SoftwareDecember 5, 2006 Progress Software Corp. announces that Expedia has selected Progress® Sonic as the messaging infrastructure for its ticket reservation system. Expedia's trip planning tools allow business and leisure travelers to book airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, destination activities, vacation packages and cruises online. The Company's architecture provides the flexibility and agility needed to add and update services as quickly and often as necessary. "Expedia is the world's largest global travel marketplace – and technology plays a vital role in supporting our business vision," said Paul Onnen, CTO of Expedia. "Superior performance made Sonic very attractive to us. Sonic will be the messaging backbone for Expedia's new architecture. Having the flexibility to change services as needed and the ability to do it quickly will ensure that Expedia customers always receive the highest level of service that the market has to offer." "Progress Sonic simplifies the integration and reuse of business components using a standards-based SOA. Sonic delivers unmatched service availability, high performance, exceptional management capabilities and unsurpassed scalability for sophisticated enterprise deployments such as Expedia's. Additionally, Sonic's exclusive Continuous Availability Architecture™ (CAA) provides high availability and transactional fault tolerance, eliminating the risk of lost data. "Progress Sonic delivers the flexibility necessary to keep pace with constantly changing market requirements," said Gordon Van Huizen, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Infrastructure Division, Progress Software. "No other company has as much real-world experience with SOA deployments as Progress. The unrivaled agility and performance delivered by Sonic will help Expedia continue to provide its customers with service that is second to none." Source: Web Services.org Have your website professionally optimized by the search engine positioning experts at Rank for $ales. If your site has dropped in rankings since November 16, 2003, contact the search engine positioning experts at Rank for Sales. Get your business or company listed in the Global Business Listing directory and increase your business. It takes less then 24 hours to get a premium listing in the most powerful business search engine there is. Click here to find out all about it. For the best technical information on hardware, software, Internet applications, e-Commerce, B2B, Web services or IT-related industry news, visit Tech Blog. Reciprocal Link Exchange Program: If your company is engaged in the business of Web Services, the development of related Internet application, ecommerce or B2B development, Internet security services, Web hosting services or is involved in professional Search Engine Optimization, My Web Services is seriously interested in a worthwhile Reciprocal Link Exchange Trading Program with your company. Click here to get all the details.
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