California widens Oracle investigation
C|Net | at | by Mike
State legislators investigating a controversial $95 million Oracle contract have expanded their witness list to include testimony from workers in other states that have had Oracle contracts, state officials said Thursday. California officials launched their investigation last month into the six-year no-bid contract, which the state is now in the process of canceling.
The California contract sells the state more Oracle database licenses than the state has employees and costs at least $6 million more than it should, according to the auditor's report. Oracle maintains that the contract could save California as much as $163 million.
City officials in Toronto are trying to extract themselves from their own $11 million Oracle contract that auditors estimate is 10 times what the city needed. And in Ohio, officials changed their information technology contracting procedures after some frustrating negotiations with the software company.