A growing number of UK district councils are migrating back-office finance systems to stacks built on PostgreSQL 17 as Oracle licensing costs continue to rise following Broadcom-related supply chain pressures. Consultancy Informed Solutions reports completing migrations for three unitary authorities in the past quarter, typically pairing PostgreSQL with the open source Metabase reporting tool. The Local Government Association has noted the trend in its latest digital maturity benchmarking report.

Source: The Register