{"id":933,"date":"2008-08-11T22:50:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T03:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2008-08-11T22:53:36","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T03:53:36","slug":"mas-saves-millions-with-lamp-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/11\/mas-saves-millions-with-lamp-stack","title":{"rendered":"MAS saves millions with LAMP stack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian Airlines has impressed me, yet again. Last week, in The Star, they <a href=\"http:\/\/star-techcentral.com\/tech\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/8\/5\/itfeature\/1668352&amp;sec=itfeature\">reported<\/a> that Sharul Isahak, a MAS employee, has helped save the airlines close to RM70 million (about USD$21 million), thanks to his use of <strong>open source software<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The software is meant to help airline maintenance, i.e. to keep track of parts and records of maintenance works. The web-based solution, is <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiaairlinesblog.com\/?p=40\">E-Promis<\/a><\/em> (read the blog entry, its pretty interesting, as he takes you through the planning stages &#8211; it also seems like he&#8217;s still the only developer).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em> \u201cThis meant looking at open-source solutions. Instead of platforms such as Microsoft or Sun, we chose LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP)\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but grin inside, a little. After all, Sun do own the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/software\/products\/mysql\/index.jsp\">M<\/a> in LAMP ;-)<\/p>\n<p>Next up, wonder if they will open source it, ala <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/05\/malaysian-government-releases-first-open-source-software-package-mymeeting\">MyMeeting<\/a>? After all, MAS services AirAsia and JetStar planes, I wonder who else will benefit from such software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian Airlines has impressed me, yet again. Last week, in The Star, they reported that Sharul Isahak, a MAS employee, has helped save the airlines close to RM70 million (about USD$21 million), thanks to his use of open source software. The software is meant to help airline maintenance, i.e. to keep track of parts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[395,316,283,26],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-lamp","tag-malaysia-airlines","tag-opensource","tag-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-f3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}