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    Scarmoge posted an update 6 years, 5 months ago

    Well, my, my, my ….
    … for some strange reason you have to click on the “Are you a robot?” to get the article to come up.
    … apologies.
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    Microsoft Wins $10 Billion Pentagon Cloud Contract, Beating Amazon
    By John Harney and Naomi Nix
    October 25, 2019, 6:09 PM CDT Updated on October 25, 2019, 9:22 PM CDT

    Microsoft Corp. has won the sought-after JEDI cloud computing contract with the Pentagon valued at as much as $10 billion over a decade, dealing a blow to the market leader, Amazon.com Inc., which had been the front-runner.

    The decision, which was announced by the Defense Department late Friday, may be challenged by Amazon, according to a person familiar with the matter, because President Donald Trump weighed in on the bidding process. The terms of the competition were also hotly contested by another rival, Oracle Corp.

    Full article at:
    “https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-25/microsoft-wins-10-billion-jedi-contract-pentagon-says?srnd=markets-vp”