Councils continue to spend on Oracle despite budget constraints
Summary
Despite local authorities facing budget cuts, spending on Oracle appears to be increasing, according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request conducted by database firm TmaxSoft. According to TmaxSoft, a fifth of councils that responded to its FOI request stated that they had spent more than £100,000 or more on Oracle in the past two years, with 2% saying the spend had tipped the £500,000 mark. “The pace of the audits conducted by Oracle must be a concern for local councils,” said Carl Davies, UK CEO at TmaxSoft. They do not give it the rights that its licence management service [LMS] team and CIOs assume.” Specifically, some organisations may be afraid their licensing restricts use of Oracle. “Tibero bridges the gap between outdated relational databases and the new paradigm of running workloads in virtualised data centres and the cloud, allowing local authorities to fully leverage their investment by embracing a simple, true utilisation licensing model,” he said.
