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  Sabre (computer System) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Their system for booking flights was entirely manual, having developed from the techniques originally developed at their Little Rock, Arkansas reservations center in the 1920s.
The system was a success, luckily because the whole program to this point had cost the astonishing sum of $40 million to develop and install it, about $350 million in 2000 dollars.
In 1972 the system was moved to IBM S/360 systems in a new underground location in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
www.seattleluxury.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/entry/Sabre_(computer_system)   (1098 words)

  
 Sabre Engines Ltd. - About the company
Sabre was founded in 1968 by John Freeman, a successful businessman and experienced boatowner.
Sabre’s management determined that a definite shift of direction was necessary if the company was to continue as a significant force in the marine diesel engine industry into the next century.
Sabre is now the sole Perkins Marine Power Centre for England, Wales and Ireland, with responsibility for the sales, service and parts support for all Perkins marine engines in the territory.
www.perkins-sabre.com /PR/Company/Company.cfm   (1058 words)

  
 Sabre Holdings :: Earnings Releases
Total worldwide bookings processed through the SABRE computer reservations system, which includes direct bookings and joint venture bookings, were 105.2 million for the quarter, an increase of 11.6 percent over the same period last year.
Direct worldwide reservations booked through the SABRE system were 90.4 million during the third quarter, a decline of 1 percent over the same period in 1997.
The SABRE Group is a world leader in the electronic distribution of travel and travel-related services around the globe, and is a leading provider of information technology solutions for the travel and transportation industry, including customized software development and software products, transaction processing, consulting and total IT outsourcing.
www.sabre-holdings.com /investor/financial/earnings/1998_3q.html   (818 words)

  
 Sabre Holdings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sabre Holdings or Sabre, Inc. NYSE: TSG is an SandP 500 company, encompassing several brands in three global travel distribution channels: travel agency, airline, and direct to consumer.
This put Sabre at a competitive disadvantage due to the need to publicly release information in accordance with SEC regulations that they others were not subject to.
Sabre's main competitors in the travel agency and airline markets are Worldspan, Amadeus, and Galileo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sabre_Holdings   (279 words)

  
 Sabre Holdings :: Earnings Releases
Total worldwide bookings processed through the Sabre® computer reservations system, which includes direct bookings and joint venture bookings, were 115 million for the quarter, an increase of 10 percent over the same period last year.
Direct worldwide reservations booked through the Sabre® computer reservations system were 99 million during the first quarter – an increase of 5 percent over the same period in 1998 – excluding Asia/Pacific bookings, which were transferred to Abacus International Inc., the company’s joint venture in that region.
Sabre (NYSE: TSG) is a world leader in the electronic distribution of travel and is a leading provider of information technology solutions for the travel and transportation industries, including customized software development and software products, transaction processing, consulting and total information technology outsourcing.
www.sabre-holdings.com /investor/financial/earnings/1999_1q.html   (755 words)

  
 Sabre Wulf for Game Boy Advance Review - Game Boy Advance Sabre Wulf Review
The resulting game, also called Sabre Wulf, is a fun little game with some interesting gameplay mechanics and some of the Rare charm that you've come to expect.
Sabre Wulf's origins go back 20 years to the Spectrum computer.
Sabre Wulf's look is similar to the Donkey Kong Country series.
www.gamespot.com /gba/action/sabrewulf/review.html   (1170 words)

  
 EXN.ca | Technology
Sabre is one of the world's two largest computerized reservation systems used by airlines and travel agents.
Sabre is operated by a subsidiary of AMR Corp., the parent company of American Airlines.
A computer known as the Total Airport Management System was designed, as its name implies, to handle a myriad of airport functions from flight information displays to baggage.
www.exn.ca /Stories/1998/07/03/57.asp   (483 words)

  
 Success Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Sabre Holdings, an S&P 500 company, is a world leader in travel commerce, retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry.
Sabre reviewed the benefits of the AMD Opteron processor, based on the x86 instruction set, including AMD64 technology with Direct Connect Architecture, and quickly made the decision to deploy AMD Opteron processor-based systems.
Based on the success of the AMD Opteron processor-based systems, Sabre has standardized on the HP DL585 platform for their search engine, and is currently evaluating other areas of the Sabre organization that would benefit from the performance gains that the AMD Opteron processor has already delivered to their search capability.
www.amd.com /ssabre   (934 words)

  
 SABRE - For Students - SABRE FAQs
You will not experience the same problems if you use a computer on campus, at home, or at the home of a friend, unless a personal firewall is installed.
This is the standardized prompt from the Oracle system that "reminds" you to set up your own, private password the first time you logon.
A: The SABRE system is designed to log a user out when the user is inactive for fifteen (15) minutes.
www.buffalostate.edu /sabre/students/faqs/index.asp?sub=tshoot   (687 words)

  
 Sabre Airline Solutions
Sabre® Direct Access connectivity is a revenue maximization connectivity option that enables your airline to provide, unique, single-airline availability displays to travel consultants.
Sabre® Interactive Pre-Reserved Seats is a revenue-maximization tool that enables your airline to provide immediate confirmation of seat assignment requests to travel agents and travelers.
Sabre® Married Segments is a revenue-maximization tool that enables airlines to join up to three segments together as single unit to enforce the original conditions of a sale.
www.sabreairlinesolutions.com /products/gds/revenue.htm   (434 words)

  
 Sabre's customer-driven SOA | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2005-11-07 | By Leon Erlanger
For Sabre Holdings, the answer was a lot of in-house development and a complex interweaving of the old and new.
Sitting on top of the system are a set of services that manage session, state, and transaction flow as data moves from Sabre's IBM TPF (Transaction Processing Facility) mainframes to open systems and then back out to the customer.
Sabre engineers have also developed an aggregator that takes an incoming request, parcels it out to the appropriate servers and applications, and uses a rules engine to tailor a response based on the particular customer's contractual agreement.
www.infoworld.com /article/05/11/07/45FEsoacasesabre_1.html?s=feature   (1459 words)

  
 Hidden & Dangerous 2: Sabre Squadron for PC Review - PC Hidden & Dangerous 2: Sabre Squadron Review
Sabre Squadron, the new mission pack for Hidden and Dangerous 2, likewise fails to address many of the problems in its parent game.
Sabre Squadron adds nine new missions that are set in different combat theaters, and you can play them solo or cooperatively online.
Sabre Squadron also fails to address the micromanagement and control issues that plagued Hidden and Dangerous 2.
www.gamespot.com /pc/action/hiddendangerous2sabresquadron/review.html   (1414 words)

  
 Charles Babbage Institute: RESEARCH PROGRAM> Current research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
There is the French SABRE which is a relational database system designed for a multi-microprocessor machine (Systeme d’Access a des Bases Relationelles) developed in the late 1970s.
Around the same time, SABRE was also chosen in Britain as the name for a computer-based system of body radioactivity by photon spectrometry (System for the Assessment of Body Radioactivity).
None of these systems is to be confused with, nor shares any connection to, the original SABRE airlines application project and system.
www.cbi.umn.edu /shp/entries/sabre.html   (1354 words)

  
 Products and Services (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Sabre® TourPath™ is an automated interface that enables tour operators to perform compiles operations across multiple computer reservation system networks using a single system.
Sabre® TourWise™ is a customized connectivity interface and decision-support tool that enables tour operators to electronically communicate with the various computer reservation system through their host system.
Sabre® Qik-Tours™ is an automated air booking interface between the cruise/tour system and any computer reservation system that enables agents to focus on handling individual customer requests, promoting sales and delivering outstanding customer service.
www.sabretravelnetwork.com.cob-web.org:8888 /products/travel_suppliers/tour_operator/global.html   (516 words)

  
 Products and Services
Sabre® PromoSpots is a target marketing tool that enables travel suppliers to reach customers with relevant markerting information at the point of decision.
The Sabre® Direct Reference System is a communications and advertising tool that enables travel suppliers to develop up to 999 pages of marketing and information accessible by Sabre Connected travel agents via the Sabre® computer reservation system.
Sabre® Sign-In Advertising is a cost-effective medium that enables travel suppliers to effectively promote their products with customized advertising messages.
www.sabretravelnetwork.com /products/travel_suppliers/cruise_line/sales.html   (159 words)

  
 Sabre Group - Cheap Unix Web Hosting - CGI, PHP, & MySQL - Web Hosting the way it should be. Fast, Reliable and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The purpose of our system backups is for disaster recovery in the event of a system failure.
Sabre Group reserves the right to remove any executable file(s) or scripts, which we deem are harming the server environment and/or affecting other customers' website performance.
Sabre Group is not liable for any system faults or unintentional deletes of CGI files due to mishaps, system failure or acts of God.
www.sabregroup.net /faq_general.php   (667 words)

  
  Sabre Foundation, Inc. 
Sabre's project in the philosophy of institutions supports work on the conceptual grounds of modern institutions - the ideals that animate them, the rhetoric and logic of the deliberations that shape them, and their influence on the lives of the persons participating in them.
His efforts at Sabre, supported by several private foundations and individuals, were repeatedly interrupted and ultimately cut short by recurring medical problems.
During 1999 Josiah Lee Auspitz developed with a leading Swiss computer scientist a computationally tractable illustration of a fragment of the underlying logical system employed in his long-standing work for Sabre.
www.sabre.org /archives/99_ar/philosophy.html   (299 words)

  
 Sabre Systems, Inc. - Contract Vehicles
Sabre was awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) for Commerce Information Technology Solutions Next Generation (COMMITS NexGen), a broad “solutions” based Government-wide Aquisition Contract (GWAC) open to all Federal government agencies.
Sabre is a Tier II vendor certified to compete on task orders with a life cycle value over $5 million.
The hardware and software components of the system may be provided by this establishment or company as part of integrated services or may be provided by third parties or vendors.
www.sabresys.com /commits.asp   (611 words)

  
 Press release
Sabre is also using ILOG's market-leading optimization product, ILOG CPLEX, for its airline flight scheduling (AirFlite™) and yield management (AirMax™) products.
The company is evaluating integrating ILOG Solver optimization software into its business-to-business computer reservation system (CRS) in order to support improved real-time decision making processes, as well as many of its other decision support products.
Sabre is the global leader in applying information technology to meet the needs of the travel and transportation industries with advanced and innovative technology skills to deliver progressive solutions.
www.ilog.com /corporate/releases/us/000925_sabre.cfm   (714 words)

  
 SDS Glossary
Semi-Automatic Business Research Environment – a computer system that processes data and provides responses on a large variety of topics.
Systems Network Architecture – a network built out of expensive, dedicated switching minicomputers managed by a central mainframe.
It is designed as an operating system powered by the S/390 CMOS technology and optimized for delivering the exacting and extreme requirements of highly scalable, mission-critical computing with very high levels of guaranteed 7 x 24 x 365 availability.
sds.sabre.com /sds2.htm   (646 words)

  
 DEEP: Hungary
Sabre Foundation's partner organization in Hungary, Sabre-Hungary Alapitvány, is an autonomous non-governmental, non-profit organization created for the purpose of distributing books donated by U.S. and European publishers.
Once the orders are placed, the information is entered into the computer, and separate orders for each institution are run-off and sent to the warehouse personnel for preparation of the packages.
Sabre Foundation uses the acknowledgments to solicit more books from the publishers.
www.sabre.org /archives/deep/hungary.html   (524 words)

  
 Perkins Sabre M225Ti - Features
The Perkins turbocharger wastegate system reduces the maximum cylinder pressure and hence improves reliability and durability.
Lightweight materials and the use of computer aided design on cylinder block and head provides an excellent power to weight ratio for enhanced boat performance.
Oil and coolant systems developed to permit a wide range of operating angles both for conventional shaft and vee-drive installations.
www.britishmarine-usa.com /sabre/engines/m225ti/features.htm   (327 words)

  
 Sabre Tubular Structures - Facilities
Sabre Tubular Structures understands that capacity is key to meeting delivery deadlines.
Sabre Tubular Structures' Quality Assurance team performs both an in-process and final inspection on each structure prior to loading and final shipment from our facility.
Sabre can assemble complete structures, when necessary, to ensure proper fit prior to shipment.
www.sabrecom.com /steel_utility_poles_facilities.aspx   (274 words)

  
 American Airlines: Hitting Turbulence
That's because the proposals require esoteric computer programming of Sabre, a 40-year-old mainframe system developed by American and IBM that predates modern computing, and was once the backbone of American's information systems.
Sabre's flexibility—its native interface is a blank screen—was once an advantage, Jones says, because it let a travel agent make reservations by entering information—names, flight numbers, and so on—in any order.
Because Sabre has no standard way of recognizing incoming data as a transaction, a reservation coming from an agent may be entered differently and, therefore, understood differently than a reservation made by a passenger through AA.com.
www.baselinemag.com /article2/0,3959,1189183,00.asp   (2174 words)

  
 Sabre Towers and Monopoles - HF Antennas
Sabre offers complete HF communications systems that come with all equipment needed to establish your site.
Sabre's AEK-I or AEK-II erection kit can be used with the hinged base option and a winch to eliminate the need for a crane.
Twin Tower system is 80' tall with a 100' mast that supports the antenna.
www.sabrecom.com /antennas_home.aspx   (472 words)

  
 Consumer Reports WebWatch Letters to the Editor (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
However, the way the Sabre computer system was used to benchmark fares would lead some readers to inappropriate conclusions about the ability of "brick and mortar" travel agencies using the system to obtain the lowest fares for their travelers.
Offline agencies also negotiate low airfares and hotel and car rental rates with travel suppliers that are incorporated into the Sabre system for their individual use, in addition to the published fares and rates.
Sabre was chosen most often because it is the largest GDS in North America.
www.consumerwebwatch.org.cob-web.org:8888 /archived-letters.cfm   (3017 words)

  
 Star-Telegram.com | 12/20/2006 | Maybe new owners can help Sabre live up to potential   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Sabre has transformed itself since 2000, selling off one operation, shrinking another and making big strides with Travelocity, its travel site.
Sabre has been paying a dividend since early 2003, and it had peak periods around the tech bubble.
Sabre’s results have been shaky this decade as it dealt with the aftermath of 9-11 and the financial troubles that hit airlines, which pay fees to Sabre’s computer reservations system.
www.dfw.com /mld/dfw/business/columnists/mitch_schnurman/16281645.htm   (935 words)

  
 AnandTech: PC Club Enpower Sabre Extreme: E6600 Made Easy
We recently looked at the ABS Ultimate X9 computer system and found it to be a fast but expensive system, as well as having some niggling stability issues related to the GPU water cooling.
Their target audience is the college and high school student that needs a system to do homework and research, but it can also function as a multimedia platform or a gaming setup.
Not only do you get a system that can be plugged in and running in a matter of minutes, but you get centralized support from one location, and if you live in an area where you can purchase from a local store it makes getting help that much easier.
www.anandtech.com /systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2823   (773 words)

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