On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 00:23, Abhishek Daga wrote:
Side Question: Has anyone run the Galileo software (travel bookings) on linux?
If you're talking about Galileo Focalpoint 3.5 (the most commonly used release of the Galileo desktop client), it does not work at all under Wine. YMMV - I last tried a couple of years ago, and Wine has evolved since then. I've had some success with Sabre for Windows, though - it works partially. I did not push too hard to make it work though, since Sabre's stated intention is to abandon their traditional desktop client paradigm and move purely to a web browser based solution (MySabre, which is a combination of ActiveX (ugh!) and Java).
Galileo (Cendant Corp.) is heavily wedded to the Windows platform. Even their SDK (XML Select) for accessing the Galileo back end is a pure Windows play, with no plans to release a UNIX/ Linux version.
You could always roll your own front end on Linux though, if you have developer access to Galileo Web Services.
HTH,
Krishnan