Oracle says Oregon wanted to take 'unacceptable risk' with healthcare website
It's the latest twist in the ugly public battle between Oregon and the vendor over a failed Obamacare software project
Without a pre-production environment as backup, any outages could result in data losses and significant downtime, Daley added.
Moreover, a backup system gives administrators the ability to check the impact of patches and other changes on the application before they are applied to the production environment. It's common for this sort of testing to "uncover unintended deleterious consequences to the application that must be repaired and retested," she wrote.
Oregon CIO Alex Pettit told Oracle in a letter that Cover Oregon would like to "recover possession" of the Exadata servers being used for the production environment, according to Daley.
While not stated explicitly, Pettit's letter suggested that the state wants to use the servers now running the pre-production environment and use them to run the production environment needed for what Deloitte is doing, Daley added. Oregon "evidently did not budget for the new servers it now requires," she wrote.
After Oracle made its objections to Oregon's requests, Cover Oregon made a number of alternative proposals, "none of which are acceptable," Daley said. Among these were suggestions that Oracle move the system off Exadata and onto commodity hardware, which isn't technically viable since the same configurations aren't possible, she wrote.
