Loading ...Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft awarded $9 billion Pentagon cloud deals
- Of the four companies receiving cloud-computing contracts from the Pentagon, all of them had received requests for bids from the U.S. federal agency last year.
- At that time, the General Services Administration didn’t expect that Oracle, a lesser player in the cloud-infrastructure business, would be able to meet the Pentagon’s needs. But its contract could turn out to be just as big as those Amazon, Google and Microsoft are getting.
HOW MUCH CO-OPERATION DOES $9B BUY?
Orwell warned what would happen if all our past would be in the hands of a few controlling the data base of history, to change history at will, and the result will be ‘The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.’