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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by wnsire on Saturday July 28, 2018 @11:11AM (#17633483)
>My guess is Oracle Cloud will make the most aggressive bid

Not sure , it's also about sells arguments.

Governement often runs on Oracle because it was the most popular RDBMS at the time with enterprise support. So this is a massive argument technically speaking to convince customer : "We'll migrate your oracle DB and infrastructure for you , we have the tooling for that".

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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by dragonwriter on Saturday July 28, 2018 @11:25AM (#17633535)
> Governement often runs on Oracle because

...outright corruption, though that coming brilliantly to light in the 00’s in California is also why comparatively little in California State government does any more. (Also why the trend toward IT centralization in the State was stopped dead in favor of decentralized decision making with central oversight.)

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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by dantheman0207 on Saturday July 28, 2018 @01:41PM (#17634132)
Would love to read more about this, any pointers?
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Re:Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud c... by djrogers on Saturday July 28, 2018 @03:51PM (#17634683)
https://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2001-128.pdf

http://articles.latimes.com/2002/may/07/local/me-oracle7

Although to be complete transparent, there are multiple examples of this, so I’m not sure exactly which one GO away referring to.

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