“Community Based”? Yeah Right!

I follow the blog of Web In Travel. A few days ago they posted an infomercial (masking it as an interview) promoting Amadeus. Amadeus is a veteran company known for its GDS system.

Amadeus is “trying hard” to evolve its business model and technology so that it keeps up with recent innovation. Unfortunately, for them (and fortunately for us), they seem to be… hmmmm… confused in terms of Web 2.0. Would you like to see proof? Look at their hilarious definition of “community based”: “[our] solution is a community-based model, which means that airlines can share the cost of the technology investment, greatly decreasing what an individual airline would pay for a unique IT platform or developing their own in-house system.”

Granted, their solution may not even use the Internet, but since when did partnering with another company to hire a vendor became a “community effort”!? It seems to me that Amadeus, being a technology company, is pushing the definition of community a little too far.

I wonder if they consider “Web 2.0″ using Firefox 2.0 or something.

Alexander Torrenegra

P.S. I did not study with a major in business, so maybe, this is how “community effort” is taught these days. I may be wrong. If so, please let me know! :)

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1 Comment

  1. Alberto Domínguez

    So, if I’m using Firefox 3.x it doesn’t mean that I’m surfing the Web 3.0? OMG! OMG! OMG! -i.e. OMG! 3.0!

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