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Larry comments on my previous criticism of using airline reservation systems as a perfect example of a distributed application. That's great because he has actually spent some time implemeting this kind of system and it's even worse than it appears.
And lots of crucial data, like fare-change rules, are never implemented according to whatever standard was cooked up in the 70s, they're almost always implemented in "comments" fields in an organization-specific way that's evolved for decades.
Hey, cleartext is a valid way for storing business rules if only trained personnel enters orders ;-).
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