Amazon is headed for court to contest the surprise decision to hand Microsoft the $10bn US Department of Defense IT supply contract.
Jeff Bezos' retail-cum-cloud empire alleges that Microsoft won because of "political influence" and "unmistakable bias". The company has also accused the US defence department of failing to run a fair procurement contest for the 10-year single-supplier deal.
Amazon's cloud biz, AWS, was perceived for a long time as the frontrunner in the race to win the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, ahead of Microsoft and Oracle. However, US president Donald Trump's long list of supposed enemies includes the Amazon CEO, mainly because he objects to coverage of the presidency by the Bezos-owned Washington Post.
The cloud giant has not yet filed papers in court, but has informed the US government and Microsoft of its intention to do so.
[...] Microsoft declined to comment.
One question still to be answered is: what will last longer and prove the most expensive? The 10-year, $10bn JEDI contract or the associated court action?
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Sunday November 17 2019, @12:14PM (3 children)
Scuba diver ironing underwater - US Army
Approaching shark in background - 'Cloud' services operated by the armies of other countries in other countries
Heck at least aws is kindof american such that the cia can lol trust them with a huge contract, meaning it is the cia enough that the cia trusts the admins of aws won't spy on the cia.
But microsoft, this is trump's kindof company, crypto zionist, front backdoors, back backdoors, the perfect company for global totalitarianism.
Words fail, I must resort to memes:
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(Score: 2) by dwilson on Sunday November 17 2019, @05:08PM (1 child)
Every time I read one of your posted comments, I am reminded of reading the newspaper articles in SimCity 2000.
- D
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday November 18 2019, @04:22PM
This may be the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.
I had to jog my memory, and I had a very long belly laugh here that was much needed.
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I will continue. You might enjoy my homepage and other memes. Posting more to my journal now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @05:13PM
The ironing is strong in this one.