Wotif.com makes a booking with open source
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| When Paul Young joined Australia's leading accommodation website,
| Wotif.com, as CIO four years ago, he was faced with a company whose
| explosive growth had rendered the incumbent enterprise architecture
| redundant. So he did what all qualified engineers are trained to do,
| he built his own solution, utilizing J2EE and open source software.
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| He also warned of the inflexible nature of proprietary solutions that he
| said focused too much on consolidation and not enough on "being the right
| fit"
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;205928367;fp;4;fpid;2
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