Russian Railways buys Russian DBMS for 1.08 billion rubles

At the end of March 2022, it became known about the purchase by Russian Railways of a license to use the database management system (DBMS) of the Russian company Postgres Professional. According to information on the public procurement website, we are talking about a contract of 1.08 billion rubles.

As the general director of Postgres Professional Ivan Panchenko told Vedomosti, the agreement with Russian Railways was concluded for three years, it involves the possibility of unlimited use of Postgres Pro DBMS licenses. Licenses have already been transferred to Russian Railways, now for three years they will be provided with technical support, Panchenko said.

Russian Railways buys Russian DBMS for 1.08 billion rubles

Russian Railways told the publication that the domestic solution will be used in automated systems that provide the most important production processes of the state-owned company: the processing of transportation documents in the electronic document management system, passenger transportation management, asynchronous messaging of automated systems of Russian Railways, planning and monitoring the execution of local work and others.

Testing showed the ability of this software to support tasks of any complexity with the necessary performance and in full, "added Russian Railways.

Earlier, Russian Railways used foreign solutions, a company representative told the newspaper, who refused to name which companies.

According to Ivan Panchenko, Postgres Pro DBMS is an analogue of foreign solutions from Oracle and Microsoft. Both companies in early March 2022, against the backdrop of a special operation of Russia in Ukraine, announced the suspension of the sale of new solutions in the Russian Federation. Nevertheless, the conclusion of the Russian Railways contract is not directly related to the events in Ukraine: as Panchenko says, the parties began to discuss it at the end of 2021.^[1]

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