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Re:Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition by tanilama on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @05:25AM (#18174430)
TBH, I don't think Google stand a solid chance winning it either. Their offering is not the best, and there isn't good wills from the current administration either.

Even though issues regarding big techs nowadays are all high politicized, but Google stands in the centre of the current political radicalization in US. Their means are extremely restricted.

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Re:Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition by ardy42 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:20AM (#18175687)
> TBH, I don't think Google stand a solid chance winning it either. Their offering is not the best, and there isn't good wills from the current administration either.

IIRC, the current administration has less goodwill towards Amazon because its CEO owns the Washington Post. I don't think that was a factor.

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Re:Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition by marpstar on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @01:12PM (#18177778)
It's both Amazon (because Bezos owns the Post) and Google (because of Eric Schmidt's close ties with the DNC).
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Re:Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition by merpnderp on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @11:42AM (#18176872)
These things are ruled by likely 10,000 laws passed by Congress to minimize corruption by allowing the executive branch to hand out favors. The people with actual power to corrupt are Senators and Reps who can add pork to spending bills.
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