Microsoft Is the Surprise Winner of a $10B Pentagon Contract
Oct 30, 2019•4 min
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Episode description
The corporate war to provide cloud computing for US warfighters is over. Late Friday, the Department of Defense announced that Microsoft has won the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, known as JEDI. The decision was the culmination of a two-year process that also included Google, IBM, and Oracle, and where Amazon was long seen as the favorite.
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