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Much To Oracle's Chagrin, Pentagon Names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B JEDI Cloud Contract Finalists (techcrunch.com)
The Pentagon this week announced two finalists in the $10 billion, decade-long JEDI cloud contract process -- and Oracle was not one of them. From a report: In spite of lawsuits, official protests and even back-channel complaining to the president, the two finalists are Microsoft and Amazon. "After evaluating all of the proposals received, the Department of Defense has made a competitive range determination for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud request for proposals, in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. The two companies within the competitive range will participate further in the procurement process," Elissa Smith, DoD spokesperson for Public Affairs Operations told TechCrunch. She added that those two finalists were in fact Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS, the cloud computing arm of Amazon).
Weird, I thought Oracle would tick all of government's boxes. I mean, I thought potential for unthinkably ballooning costs is what usually gets you government contracts?
They were okay with Oracle charging them per CPU but balked when Oracle changed it to per CPU Register.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
As long as anything the President has to see just says "AWS" they'll slip on through. He'll have a Jedi Cloud for the Space Force powered by AWSome as far as he's concerned.
...they decided that Oracle would be much more appropriate for the SITH contract.