Sabre has been marketing cubeless, a social networking platform and knowledge base, to corporations inside and outside the travel industry, but now, it turns out, chairman and CEO Sam Gilliland has abandoned the corner office for a cube.

OK, no real connection between cubeless and Gilliland’s cube decision other than the fact that both symbolize a sort of opening up and a laudable democratization of sorts.

And, I wonder how Gilliland’s cubemates would have reacted to a Dallas Morning News interview over the weekend and, specifically, to the following spin about Sabre’s loss of its American Airlines’ hosting contract to HP.