You asked
Do you currently make use of any Oracle products? If so, which?
What is the quantity of licensed users split by each Oracle product used by your organisation?
What is the value of your current Oracle contracts, split by product?
Do you outsource your Oracle projects, services or maintenance to an external supplier? If so, whom? When does that contract expire?
In 2013, the Cabinet Office appointed an Open Standards Board to drive the use of Open Source across Government. Which Open Source databases have you (a) deployed since 2013 and (b) have firm plans to deploy within the next 18 months as alternatives to Oracle products?
We said
The answers to questions 1, 2 and 3 can be found in the following spreadsheet FOI 2477 Oracle (40 Kb Excel sheet) .
We don't outsource any Oracle projects etc. We have just signed the fusion contract which is a Software as a Service arrangement with Oracle themselves.
Since 2013 we have deployed PostgreSQL to support the data collection initiatives, we have included Hadoop etc. as part of the work we have undertaken to explore Big Data technology and plan to extend this. Our direction of travel is towards the general adoption of open source technologies but firm plans are to be developed.
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- FOI 2477 Oracle (40 Kb Excel sheet (41.0 kB xls)