https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/09/06/2120208/largest-local-government-body-in-europe-goes-under-amid-oracle-disaster This sounds like corruption.

Why would you replace a customized system like that with another commercial system? Either write something with open source, or keep using what you have already built.

In any case, governments all over the world have the same requirements for this sort of thing. If they pooled their budgets and developed an open source alternative, they would save money and starve the commercial software beast at the same time.

NYC had a similar fiasco. 

 @e7f7ab20 Oracle is famous for making products more complicated then necessary. I too wish local authorities, civic services, education and gonverments start using open source and open data for public good. Software and hardware shouldn't be proprietary in these use cases especially.