As Europe’s third busiest airport, Amsterdam’s Schiphol is turning to open source software to become more efficient and offer better service. It’s doing that by introducing an open API for flight information and adopting systems to “improve the traveller’s journey in the widest sense possible, ranging from deciding on a specific flight to driving a car to the airport and enjoying smart parking.” To make all that possible, Schiphol is adopting multiple open source cloud computing systems from vendors like Red Hat, Amazon, and Microsoft to “avoid the risk of cloud lock-in.”
