See this quote "To better understand the resulting Starwood’s technology compared to industry legacy systems, think Tesla Model S versus a gas-guzzling 1975 Buick Electra.
Then along came Marriott . . .
When Marriott announced its interest in acquiring Starwood, one would have believed that they factored in a $500 million Starwood IP technology value within their $13.6 Billion offer, and that they would have been salivating at the prospect of having their hands on the fruits of the multi-year transformation experience this IP represented. After all, while stable as a rock, Marriott’s own system today centers around 1970’s Mainframe TPF technology (MARSHA) suitably kept current via the judicious use of the scotch-tape and wires represented by a cornucopia of front-end gateways and the labor intense support of inflexible legacy code, eclectic data bases, hard-coded interfaces, and a veritable zoo of different property management systems crying for better integration. "
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/marriottstarwood-back-future-...
See this quote "To better understand the resulting Starwood’s technology compared to industry legacy systems, think Tesla Model S versus a gas-guzzling 1975 Buick Electra.
Then along came Marriott . . .
When Marriott announced its interest in acquiring Starwood, one would have believed that they factored in a $500 million Starwood IP technology value within their $13.6 Billion offer, and that they would have been salivating at the prospect of having their hands on the fruits of the multi-year transformation experience this IP represented. After all, while stable as a rock, Marriott’s own system today centers around 1970’s Mainframe TPF technology (MARSHA) suitably kept current via the judicious use of the scotch-tape and wires represented by a cornucopia of front-end gateways and the labor intense support of inflexible legacy code, eclectic data bases, hard-coded interfaces, and a veritable zoo of different property management systems crying for better integration. "
It reads as sour-grapes to me.
If you wanna read more about MARSHA - this seems to be a good source: http://ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/casestudies/miscellaneous...