[niftich]

Uber didn't exist before 2009. They got a bunch of people in a room and wrote some code, and now they're successful. Greenfield development at it's best.

Delta started off flying planes, and has been around longer than computers existed. Like many established businesses, they have a mix of new and legacy technologies, and can't just copy everything up to AWS. They'd have to dedicate years of time and effort over many employees to rewrite some of their systems, while still maintaining their existing ones in parallel until it's safe to migrate off. All the while they have an actual business to run, with real revenues, real expenditures, and IT is just (an important, but costly) piece in the big picture.

These companies are neither incompetent, nor malicious. They just have to find the money and time to get done the enhancements they'd like to their systems, and change doesn't happen overnight. Likely, with this awkward generator fire, they'll try to hasten their efforts.

[praneshp]

>> Delta started off flying planes,

Only statement in your comment that I disagree with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines#History