VMware finds back door for US military mega-deal, but Nutanix, Citrix protest again VMware's foes have again protested its attempts to strike a new deal with much of the US military. VMware spent much of 2014 chasing the US$1.6bn, five-year deal, which was to cover the US Army, Navy, Air Force and Defense Information Systems Agency. That deal was controversial because it was done under “A Justification For …
In this space you may very well be right but horses for courses and lol I can tell you Virtualbox with its very liberal licensing just rocks for running Tails OS (to get secure browsing on windows) so that I can post this. No worrying about licences at all ftw. Granted slightly different use cases.
The ferals often try to write specs that force vendor lock-in whether there is a real technical justification or not. If you have been around feral purchasing you know this is the game. Often the competitors complaint are correct; the specs are written to lock out most vendors and provide the favored vendor the best possible chance to ink the deal
Whether sole-sourcing is legitimate in this case, it is hard to say without the specs. But knowing the ferals and the game, I tend to doubt sole-sourcing is legitimate.
True enough. I spent most of my career challenging sole source to no effect. Hell, I was receiving responses ten years on after I was put out to pasture. Wow. I hadn't realized how slow the System really is.
Doing a small contract and then piling in all and sundry is Classic Federal Procurement practice.
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