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On the other hand, when the IC wanted a cloud the only two real competitors were IBM, Amazon and the NSA. IBM protested the award but Amazon ultimately won.

If the requirements for this are anything like the ICs then Oracle doesn't offer enough to truly compete. It'll be either Google or Amazon in the end with Microsoft winning a side contract to provide Exchange, AD, and Office365.

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To be fair, when the IC bought their own AWS cloud, Oracle had just unveiled their Bare Metal Compute product. Only in the last year or two have they begin to offer virtualized resources in their cloud. AFAIK, the virtualized offering runs on top of their BMC foundation and the product has been renamed to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

They still only have a couple of data centers.

"Oracle Cloud" is vaporware.

More than a couple. Not as many as amazon.

Source: I work for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

You're absolutely right. The last time I checked it was Phoenix and Ashburn. Quite a few more, now:

https://cloud.oracle.com/data-regions

I'm sorry that you work for Oracle.

Oracle actually has dozens of data centers all over the world. How many "public" cloud users they have is totally obfuscated and in my opinion is probably an outright fraud. Oracle, please don't sue me for slander. I said probably, not definitely.

In reality, I suspect most of these data centers are just private co-locations.

I haven't read the RFP but I doubt the number of data centers will matter. Odds are that these would be placed on federal property, such as certain military bases, and not be a part of any preexisting commercial infrastructure.

BMC isn't enough though. Amazon didn't win simply because they had EC2.

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