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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. No attempts at finding other sources? by mykos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Apparently they run the Department of the Interior like the Air Force. I remember waiting four weeks and paying $80 for three ounces of a very specific lithium grease for some of our equipment that had an extremely similar clone at Lowe's for $4.

    1. Re:No attempts at finding other sources? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Sadly, a lot of stuff sold to consumers is actually better than "mil spec". Disclosure: I used to work for a major aerospace and defense contractor.

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