When a 300% price hike threatened the Mississippi Public Employees’ Retirement System’s mission-critical infrastructure, the agency faced a choice: absorb unsustainable costs or take control of its technology future.
This Government Technology case study reveals how PERS, with the help of Mythics, successfully migrated to an open source Oracle virtualization platform — reducing software costs by two-thirds, improving performance, and gaining flexibility for future cloud migration.
For agencies across the country grappling with rising costs, vendor lock-in, and modernization pressures, Mississippi’s story offers a clear, practical roadmap to sustainable IT transformation.
