Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
by p0rkbelly on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:54PM
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Hopefully both sides learn from the long-term downward spiral of HP's contract with the Navy.
https://www.wired.com/2010/08/hp-holds-navy-network-hostage/
Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
by bilbo0s on Saturday October 26, 2019 @11:09AM
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Yeah, but if MS wants that headache, why not let them have it?
Politics nowadays are just way too unpredictable and destructive. Just best not to be anywhere near it when, say, cost overruns on this project happen and you still haven't delivered anything the DoD is actually using.
Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
by mrep on Saturday October 26, 2019 @08:46AM
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> Microsoft has essentially cemented being the cloud provider for the Pentagon for the foreseeable future.
How? AWS already has 3 entire regions dedicated to the US government and those aren't going away anytime soon.
Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract
by gzer0 on Saturday October 26, 2019 @09:12AM
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AWS certainly has numerous US government contracts; however, none of those are from the Pentagon. With the awarding of the contract, the Pentagon specifically has chosen Microsoft over AWS.
Note: Pentagon != all US govt agencies
Once all of the pentagon is integrated with Azure, after the 10 years are up, it will be very unlikely for Pentagon to want to switch, not only due to costs, but everyone will have been trained specifically for handling Azure.
This gives Microsoft a massive lead in terms of government infrastructure and all but guarantees we'll be seeing more and more contracts handed to Azure.