St.Petersburg Governor Valentina Matvienko rounded off the summer with signing a memorandum of cooperation with Oracle Corporation.
This happened only a month after she made an agreement with the management of Microsoft Russian office. Microsoft agreed to provide the city authorities with software and hardware necessary for the government projects and to take part in the professional trainings in information technologies.
The agreement on Intentions with Oracle aims at strengthening the existing partnership between the City of St.Petersburg and Oracle Corporation and at exploring information technology e-government projects. In signing the agreement, the parties expressed mutual interest in considering co-operation in the design and implementation of a series of new city information systems based on leading-edge technologies, and which will integrate with the existing St. Petersburg IT systems to provide government services to citizens and to businesses.
By partnering with two IT giants, the government of St.Petersburg has proved its interest towards the making information technology an inherent part of the city life. The city authorities became very attentive to the needs of the local IT community and have been looking for proving additional tax incentives for the IT market players. Only this year, their efforts brought two MNCs’ technology centers to St.Petersburg - Hewlett-Packard and EMC. Oracle announced the plan to open a new office in the city, too.
