Texas-based EDS originally obtained the software through its November 2001 acquisition of Atraxis, the IT services subsidiary of Swissair Group. EDS has a close relationship with Sabre, with which it signed a $2.2bn deal in February 2001 to run the travel services company’s IT infrastructure for a 10-year period.
The two companies also jointly market services and products to the airline industry, a sector where EDS claims to be the dominant IT services supplier. A recent survey by one of EDS’s rivals in the sector, SITA, found that 75 per cent of airline CIOs said they expect to see ITC investment at the same level or higher in 2004 than in 2003.
As part of EDS’s new corporate strategy announced by CEO Michael Jordan in June, the company is considering the disposal of non-core divisions. The company sold its subscription fulfilment business for $10 million in cash and assumed liabilities to Amrep Corp in April 2003.
This article was based on material originally published by ComputerWire.
