Starwood checks in with Progress

摘要

Checking rates online for a room at a Sheraton or Westin hotel is no longer a fingerdrumming experience. And Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, the owner and operator of that online reservations system, gives credit in large part to a humble little object database from Progress Software Corp. For the past year, Starwood — which also operates W Hotels along with the Le Meredian, St. Regis and Four Points chains — has been slowly offloading its rates and availability system from an aging mainframe to a distributed set of applications running on Linux servers, said Song Park, director of pricing and availability technologies at Starwood's White Plains, N.Y. headquarters.