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Oracle Pulls IT support to Eskom Amid Payment Dispute

SOUTH AFRICA
  • ESKOM FACES LOSING ORACLE'S TECH SUPPORT SERVICES
  • Eskom says Oracle is no longer providing it "quite essential" IT support with services
  • Eskom Spox: there have been no positive developments

Oracle's services to Eskom include:

  • Eskom's online vending system enabling sale of electricity
  • maintenance tools for power outages * tools for logging electrical faults
  • control of electricity grids, which allow areas to be switched off
  • load monitoring of electricity generation power stations

While Eskom has said it has risk mitigation measures in place it says there is a risk major to the electric supply

MNI London Bureau | +44 020-3983-7894 | murray.nichol@marketnews.com
MNI London Bureau | +44 020-3983-7894 | murray.nichol@marketnews.com

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