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Much To Oracle's Chagrin, Pentagon Names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B JEDI Cloud Contract Finalists (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

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).

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  1. Huh, weird by Ecuador · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?

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  2. As it should be by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Both have FedRAMP, both have strong privacy and security policies, and neither is Oracle or IBM. All is right in the world.

  3. Re:A good sign... by KlomDark · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why? I've worked with both AWS and Azure, and I'd personally pick Azure as the better service.

    Is this just some archaic "MS Bad" shit from the 1990s, or do you have actual facts?

  4. Re:I'm surprised... by gtall · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Or how about Asshole picking on Bush Sr.'s DEAD wife. Then he recently took a shot a George Washington, apparently he was stupid for not naming Mt. Vernon after himself. Uh...I guess an entire fucking city doesn't count, and he didn't even have to put his name on it. It was named for him out of respect.

    There's something we'll never see, something named for Trump out of respect.