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Google Wins Injunction Against Agency Using Microsoft Cloud

Posted by samzenpus on from the knocked-out-of-the-sky dept.

jfruhlinger writes "A judge has granted an injunction stopping the US Department of the Interior from moving forward with the adoption of Microsoft's cloud services. The injunction was sought by Google, which of course has its own suite of cloud offerings. Google claimed that the Interior Dept. failed to consider other options as required."

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  1. Re:Not a good sign... by hedwards · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The irony there is that individuals like Sen. Coburn go apeshit over the wasting of a few million dollars on a multibillion dollar budget item even as getting equally worked up when suggested that he should take it out of defense or raise taxes on the rich.

    Pretty much anything in the US budget for less than about $15b isn't worth worrying about unless it's really easily pruned. And certainly anything under $1b isn't. We're going bankrupt on the huge expenditures for no gain, such as the DoD ridiculously huge budget and the various tax breaks to people that already have mansions.