Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microsoft were fighting over

Re:Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microso... by cellis on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:50PM (#27752738)

I’ll take that bet. 10 150k public sector employees vs 10 250k private sector, its going to be a slaughter in terms of productivity in favor of the private sector. In fact I would take 10 private sector engineers at 250k vs your 20 public sector at 150k and would still win.

The reason is not talent, but process. Governments are bureaucratic by nature, companies are meritocratic by nature. Obviously this is a vast simplification and there are exceptions but I wouldn’t bet on your team being one.

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Re:Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microso... by freeopinion on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:18PM (#27753079)

I didn't say my hires would be public sector. They just have to produce something that is freely available to the public sector and meets a specific public sector need.

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Re:Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microso... by scudd on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:56PM (#27752809)

I've observed that large corporations are also quite capable of bureaucracy.

Although I've never worked in public sector so I can't make a cross comparison.

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Re:Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microso... by EricE on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:48PM (#27765068)

lol - the larger the company the more bureaucratic they become. I have friends inside the casino industries and they are 10 times worse than I've ever seen government when it comes to gross internal inefficiencies. Makes sense - the government doesn't have to earn its money, it just uses the IRS to confiscate it and casinos don't earn their money either, they just steal it.

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