Pentagon Scraps $10B Cloud Deal Award to Microsoft

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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750770

Multi-vendor is good in principle.

DoD hopefully applying lessons learned from F-35 bullshit. It's one thing to sole source the airframe (that's been standard practice for like... forever), but the engine fiasco, the flight software fiasco, and the ODIN fiasco all reinforced the benefits of multi-vendor and open architecture where possible.

Hopefully this works out well... instead of uh something like LCS where multi-vendor just means multi-lemons.

Multi-vendor just means focusing on outsourcing one's incompetencies, making a shift from capital to operating expense and that you don't see any potential added value from cloud specific functions.

Hmm.. No impact on the Microsoft stock price?

The contract was already under protest, this decision just means another piggy will get to belly up to the trough. The main value of the JEDI contract was the validation of MS as a cloud provider- contrast that with Oracle, who was dismissed as an over-expensive joke.

There was a spike in trading and it dropped .4% on the news, but is already coming back up.

Already priced in probably:

The future of the JEDI cloud program was thrown into doubt earlier this year when Pentagon officials said they may scrap the contract if the U.S. Court of Federal Claims declined to dismiss Amazon’s claims that political interference from former President Donald Trump cost the company the lucrative cloud deal. In April, Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith rejected requests by the government and Microsoft to dismiss part of Amazon’s lawsuit, allowing the litigation to continue.

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