The Hindu reports that Telangana’s MeeSeva citizen-services platform moved its backend from Oracle to open-source PostgreSQL in April 2026, cutting a large share of licensing costs for a system that handles millions of government transactions. The article details the technical and administrative hurdles of shifting a mission-critical public service off proprietary software, and argues the case could push other governments to reconsider how much they spend on closed-source database and application licences.
How Telangana's MeeSeva migration to open source could make governments rethink software costs
The Hindu reports that Telangana's MeeSeva citizen-services platform moved its backend from Oracle to open-source PostgreSQL in April 2026, cutting a large share of licensing costs for a system that handles millions of government transactions. The article details the technical and administrative hurdles of shifting a mission-critical public service off proprietary software, and argues the case could push other governments to reconsider how much they spend on closed-source database and application licences.
Source: Thehindu