Last week’s award of a $10bn Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft, by contrast, was anything but boring. Microsoft’s win followed a tortuous battle with Amazon which, among other things, highlighted how one former Amazon executive had a hand in shaping the contract while working at the Pentagon. One disappointed bidder, Oracle, failed in a legal challenge to have the contract split between a number of suppliers, pointing to the winner-takes-all nature of the emerging cloud computing business. Read More...
Last week’s award of a $10bn Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft, by contrast, was anything but boring. Microsoft’s win followed a tortuous battle with Amazon which, among other things, highlighted how one former Amazon executive had a hand in shaping the contract while working at the Pentagon. One disappointed bidder, Oracle, failed in a legal challenge to have the contract split between a number of suppliers, pointing to the winner-takes-all nature of the emerging cloud computing business.
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