Oracle director Sanyal quits over MP database row
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 02 September 2003, 19:30 IST
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MUMBAI: Enterprise software maker Oracle India’s director, public services, Dipankar Sanyal, put in his papers on Monday, reports Economic Times, an Indian business daily. His resignation follows a controversy regarding the enterprise database company’s implementation of a software program related to sales tax in Madhya Pradesh. Sanyal is responsible for all sales to government and public sector companies, sources told the daily. Though company officials told the daily that Sanyal was leaving to pursue other opportunities, his exit has been linked to the recent failure of a project in Madhya Pradesh. An Oracle spokesperson was quoted as saying: ``Dipankar is leaving to pursue other opportunities. His resignation has nothing to do with what happened at Larry’s keynote on July 9’’. The project had come into the limelight in July this year, when Vishwapati Trivedi, an IAS officer in charge of sales tax in Madhya Pradesh, had raised the issue at a conference call with Oracle’s Chairman Larry Ellisson, in Delhi. Trivedi had claimed an implementation failure of Oracle’s software in the commercial tax department of Madhya Pradesh, during Oracle’s video conference attended by bigwigs in the government, business and media. The commercial tax department of MP had computerised its operations using Oracle database. But the system, Singh claimed, just didn’t work. ``You switch it on and it goes off,’’ he had told the Oracle chief. ``How would you feel if this were to happen to your company?’’, Trivedi asked Ellison. Ellison promptly gave his e-mail address and then disputed Mr Trivedi’s claim that Oracle systems didn’t work. Offering his own explanation for the fiasco in the commercial tax department, he had said: “Someone must have written a software on top of the Oracle software. That’s why it isn’t working.”

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