Anno “Center for Import and ICT import-substitution” (CITIC) accused Promsvyazbank, the reference defense bank of Russia, in violating import substitution policies. We are talking about choosing the American Oracle company, which has Russian analogues, writes Kommersant.
Head of TsKikt Ilya Massow in a letter to the chairman of the bank Peter Fradkov, the Minister of Digital Development Maxuta Shadaev and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov asked to cancel the purchase worth 10.3 million dollars.
He stressed that Oracle has spread its software before the start of zero years for free, so formed a large client base. However, during this time, domestic software appeared in the country, which could replace foreign developments. According to mass, the choice of Oracle is connected only with habit and reluctance to try something else.
CITIC was created in 2016 to address issues related to import substitution. Banks belong to the objects of critical infrastructure, which in 2019 President Vladimir Putin instructed to translate to Russian software.
Meanwhile, Promsvyazbank himself caused the purchase of procurement canceled, but only then to reduce its terms and amount. Instead of two years will buy for one year. The organization indicated that they would use foreign software until the introduction of domestic, and the procurement substantiations were sent to the Federal Property Management Agency. Publishing these information in open access is impossible because they may contain confidential information.
Database administrator of the Corus Consulting IT-Outsourcing Department Andrei Kharchenko denied Massague’s words about the presence of analogues of software from Oracle in the Russian market. According to him, companies that tried to change this software came across a deterioration in speed.
previously became known that the Russian authorities intend to fight for the acceleration of the rate of import substitution of software. A month ago, the corresponding order First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov gave the Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Finance and other departments.
Before that, the head of Gazprom Alexey Miller warned that if the company fell to go to the domestic software, it is expected financial problems.