MoD gets green light to splash £7.8m on Oracle licences

The Ministry of Defence was given the green light to splash £7.8m on Oracle licences this year, according to official gov info. According to the department's ICT exemption data for the first three months of 2015, the deal was given spending approval by the Cabinet Office, which has to rubber stamp all IT spend over £5m. The …

[Phil O'Sophical]

Photoshopped picture?

I don't really see the relevance of the picture anyway, except perhaps a "sucking at the tit" suggestion, but isn't it unsual to have windows on a tanker (other than the cockpit, that is)?

[Julz]

Re: Photoshopped picture?

VC10 K3, converted to tanker and therefore still has the windows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_VC10

[Phil O'Sophical]

Re: Photoshopped picture?

> VC10 K3, converted to tanker and therefore still has the windows:

Thanks for the info & link, that was an interesting lunchtime read!

[WraithCadmus]

How much do you get for £7.8m?

At current pricing they should be able to get 2, possible even 3 cores of licensing with that.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: How much do you get for £7.8m?

the support will be extra though

[Julz]

VC10 K3, converted to tanker so thus the windows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_VC10

[Anonymous Coward]

Strategic partners...

I was at a meeting some years ago, where an Oracle executive described his company as a "strategic partner" of the Ministry of Defence. So, right up there with NATO and the Five Eyes nations^* at deployment time, then?

This is what comes of not understanding the mission of the organisation. A bit like the risk assessment consultant who audibly gasped when told that the MOD had a high risk appetite for placing its employees in situations of mortal danger... and then got to the 'Oh, yes, I see' moment.

^*Overlapping sets, yes.

[Bob H]

#security

The MoD procuring software from a company which doesn't like full disclosure of security flaws and doesn't like its customers doing their own pen tests? Doesn't seem wise to me.