Shifting the computer jobless to software

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The Massachusetts Computer Software Council trade assn, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Dept of Employment and Training, announces an internship program to retrain the State's many laid-off computer hardware workers for new careers in its expanding software industry. Massachusetts has lost 46,000 high-tech jobs since 1990 as such large minicomputer companies as DEC and Wang Laboratories have hit hard times. Meanwhile, such Massachusetts software companies as Lotus Development, Credit Technologies and Banyan Systems expect to create 33,000 new jobs by 1997. Program fellows will earn $350 a week for six months while they work on projects at participating software companies. It is hoped that they will learn enough about the technology, issues and acronyms of the software field to find new jobs after the internship expires, perhaps in the internetworking and systems integration fields.

Computer software industry, Computer industry, Software industry, Human resource management, Services, Training, Unemployment, State government, Occupational retraining, Massachusetts Computer Software Council

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IBM and American Air in Aeroflot deal

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IBM and American Airlines Inc have teamed up to build a computerized reservation system for the largest airline in the world, Aeroflot. It will be based on American's Sabre system and will handle reservations, track passengers and issue tickets and boarding passes. Sabre revolutionized the way that reservations and tickets were handled in the United States, and it is expected to do the same for Aeroflot. Aeroflot, which is estimated to move 150 million passengers a year, has been plagued by problems. In 1990, the airline was forced to turn away 30 percent of its ticketed passengers because it had no way to track the number of seats sold. At present, there are no advance reservations, no seat assignments and no boarding passes. The contract could be worth up to $100 million in revenues, and will give American a strong foothold in the international reservations business.

Air transportation, scheduled, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Contracts, Russia, Technology application, American Airlines Inc., Reservation systems, Uncertainty, Aeroflot Russian Airlines, Competition, Reservation System, Financing

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