At present, Amazon, the US Department of Defense, and Microsoft are all involved in JEDI contract award litigation. Amazon claims that the contract award process is unfair and politically biased. Amazon and Microsoft executives were still arguing in a blog post last week, and both sides accused each other of distorting the facts.
Editor’s note: This article is from Tencent Technology , reviewing Jinlu.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella attributed the victory to the software giant ’s strategy of transcending politics and focusing on meeting customer needs. But what Nadella did not mention is that as early as April 2018, Microsoft has partnered with another large technology company, Oracle, to stop Amazon, the market leader in cloud computing, forcing it to abandon the so-called “joint enterprise defense foundation.” Facility “(JEDI) contract.
Microsoft and Oracle lobbyists jointly urged influential political leaders to present their reasons to the US Department of Defense. They also funded a special working group through conservative think tanks, which believes that the military should not award contracts An entity. The lobbyists of both companies hope that the Ministry of Defense will break up the contract and award it to more companies. However, after the Ministry of Defense decided to award the contract to a company, Microsoft stopped this appeal.
For many years, the relationship between Microsoft and Oracle has been quite complicated. After all, the striking partnerships between large technology companies can be difficult to take seriously, and successfully advancing these collaborations is much harder than proclaiming them with great fanfare.
Oracle and Microsoft have been in a hostile state for a long time, because the two companies are fiercely competing in the field of database technology, and there are countless conflicts and legal disputes. Even in recent years, Oracle founder Larry Ellison’s comments on Amazon and Microsoft have been very tough. Last year, the United States Department of Defense announced the inclusion of Microsoft and Amazon in JAfter the EDI contract was shortlisted, Oracle also appealed to the court.
However, under the common pressure of Amazon, the relationship between Microsoft and Oracle has gradually improved, and even a cloud computing cooperation agreement was signed in June 2019. Oracle decided to build its own data center as close to Microsoft’s Azure facility as possible. At the time, Oracle said: “Our goal is to seamlessly connect Oracle’s cloud computing infrastructure to Microsoft Azure, just like Oracle connects its own two data centers in the same region, thereby allowing enterprises to run applications across Oracle and Microsoft cloud platforms. Different components of the program. “
Both Microsoft and Oracle are counting on cloud computing to drive their growth, thereby increasing the stakes in their partnership. They described this alliance as part of avoiding customers being locked into the ecosystem of a single cloud computing provider. In this way, these companies are actually uniting against their common competitors, the largest of which are Amazon AWS and Google Google Cloud.
At present, Amazon, the U.S. Department of Defense, and Microsoft are all involved in JEDI contract award litigation. Amazon claims that the contract award process is unfair and politically biased. Amazon and Microsoft executives were still arguing in a blog post last week, and both sides accused each other of distorting the facts.