Today Meridian uses 5 SQL DB or Instances. For each purpose a DB is required. Due to the fact that IT costs are calculated per DB the IT costs for Meridian/Explorer are 5 times higher than it should.

For Instance a single DB is around 8000€ times 5 the sum is 40.000€ per year. The same for the test system and the just the costs for SQl going up to 80.000€ per year.