Deckchair.com Powers Online Travel Reservations With DB2 For Linux
White Papers deckchair.com is an online travel reservation company co-founded by James Page and Sir Bob Geldof.deckchair.com launched the Web site on Microsoft Windows NT using Microsoft SQL Server as a flight search engine tool.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Gloomy Weather For Deckchair.com
News Deckchair.com, the travel site founded by singer Sir Bob Geldof, said Thursday it has let go 25 percent of its staff in an effort to cut costs. The site is the latest in a long line of UK Web startups to fold or cut back as investor sentiment has...
[February 28, 2001, 15:00]
News Burst: Geldof Rules Out Deckchair.com Flotation
News Criticising the UK finance establishment for a failure to understand technology companies, Geldof commented that e-business is the "new rock and roll", but continues to baffle UK investors. Geldof made his remarks at a New Statesman conference...
[October 29, 1999, 12:00]
Linux Fells Another NT Dot Com
News British rock star and Internet entrepreneur Bob Geldof became an unlikely advocate of open source computing Thursday: his company, Deckchair.com, is to move over to the Linux operating system. A spokesman at the European Linux 2000 expo in London...
[June 1, 2000, 17:40]
Ebookers Still Travelling The Path To Profitability
News The positive news is a contrast to the many dot-coms, such as rival travel site Deckchair.com, who have been laying off staff in response to a sector-wide slump. Ebookers.com focuses on negotiated merchant inventory which has higher average margins...
[April 30, 2001, 14:26]
News Roundup: The Business Of Linux
News Linux fells another NT dot com Bob Geldof's Deckchair.com receives a technical overhaul to use the Linux OS. Britain's second annual Linux Expo -- held in London last week -- reflected the new popularity of the open source operating system as it...
[June 8, 2000, 8:23]
Jane Wakefield: You've Got Mail
News Despite joining the ranks of the dot-com millionaires with the launch of online travel site deckchair.com, the former Boomtown Rat and current saint admits this week -- in an exclusive chat (I would like to call it an interview but it wasn't) with...
[June 19, 2000, 7:23]
Startup Spotlight: Ebookers.com
News In the meantime, ebookers faces plenty of competition, with lastminute.com , Buzz.com, Microsoft's Expedia, Deckchair.com and others fighting for the attention and favour of UK consumers.techTrader spoke with Glenn Trouse, ebookers' chief...
[November 24, 1999, 16:03]
