Oracle Appeal Over JEDI Contract Turned Away by Supreme Court (bloomberg.com) 14
The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a lingering appeal by Oracle stemming from its challenge to the now-scrapped $10 billion cloud-computing contract the Pentagon awarded to Microsoft in 2019. From a report: The rejection was a formality given the Defense Department's decision in July to drop the contract and divide the work among multiple bidders, potentially between Microsoft and Amazon. Oracle's appeal centered on alleged conflicts of interest involving Amazon, and on claims that the Pentagon violated its own rules when it set up the contract to be awarded to a single firm.
Oracle, lol (Score:3)
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but the other clouds suck also. "Hmm, shit versus puke, let's see..."
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Oracle has Lawsuit Tourettes (Score:3)
I bet their legal team is bigger than their help-desks.
How many lawyers lose thier jobs at Oracle? (Score:3)
Whoracle, Burned Burned Karma Like Firewood (Score:2)
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Sure, the people who prefer Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker are always sad when Oracle loses.
Oracle won long ago on this (Score:5, Insightful)
The point of Oracle's dispute wasn't to eventually win in court. The entire point Oracle threw a fit was to derail the JEDI completely by making it impossible for the government to continue with the original program. These programs get tight timelines and if anything tosses a wrench into it, it's just easier to suspend the whole program altogether and start some new program. In this case, the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability. This is literally the exact same thing that Bezos' Blue Origin is doing right now for the US' return to the moon. Blue Origin is attempting to derail the space program that we've got tenuously set for returning to the moon, so that some new program can be created with them in it. Which of course any time some company derails these programs, the timeline gets set back like a decade or so. So I guess we'll get back to the moon sometime in 2040 or 2050 when everyone else already landed, just so we can pacify that asshat's ego.
There's useful capitalism and then there's these assholes like Bezos and Ellison, just to name a few.
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Bezos had a hand in JEDI as well. Remember the DoD was supposed to award it to AWS to begin with, but Bezos was on Trump's shitlist because well, WaPo couldn't write many good articles about him. In fact, most of the articles about Trump were decidedly not glowing.
So when the DoD was blocked from awarding it to AWS, they were forced to award it to Microsoft instead. Amazon sued doing just that - basically forcing such a delay that the project was scrapped.
Oracle just happened to be useful in this context as
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Why would you think they were "supposed to" award it to AWS?
If their was a corrupt conspiracy, why would you know about it? Why it would be so well known that it is a given?
It seems more likely that the military wanted it to go to MS from the start, because they have a long history of working well together.
It seems unlikely that the core parts will go to a new player, even if it gets broken up into multiple parts. It's too important.
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The solution may be some type of bonding requirement on these challenges.
Right now, the losing bidder has nothing to lose (compared to the gain) for litigating a ten or eleven digit contract. Maybe they win, and maybe it ends up being a big enough wrench to cause it to rebid. Meanwhile, the taxpayer doesn't get the program.
Making an unsuccessful challenge liable for the economic losses to government and the winner of the delay would be a possibility.
Another would be to proceed with the contract, and increas