NASA overspent $15m on Oracle software because it was afraid an audit could cost more
NASA is rubbish at software asset management, has not implemented federal government guidance on how to address it, and as a result is spending too much on code it doesn't use – including $15 million on unused Oracle software alone, under a twelve-year-old license the space agency was afraid to examine.
The report uses the example of NASA's Oracle deal to demonstrate the issues, detailing how the agency was"unwilling to risk a license audit by Oracle because of the lack of solid, centralized visibility into deployment and use of the software." "Simply put, merely the potential threat of being audited by the vendor encouraged overbuying when the accuracy of Agency Software Asset Management was suspect," the report states.
"The Oracle license overspend has been in effect for more than a decade," the report states."The Agency has not sufficiently tracked the full cost of license expenditures for the life of the existing contract which includes multiple option years in a manner which would allow the full costs to be known."
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