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Donald Trump's DOGE cost-cutting unit has made it harder to do business with the US federal government, according to private cloud contender Nutanix. Speaking on the company’s Q4 2025 earnings call, CFO Rukmini Sivaraman said "Some of the personnel changes and additional reviews that we've seen in the U.S. Fed seem to continue …

  1. IGotOut Silver badge

    Clearly...

    ...he needs to stop thinking about using brown envelopes and move to much more beautiful biggly golden envelopes

    1. elDog Silver badge

      Re: Clearly...

      Or just make his gifts payable through trump/doge-coin.

      Thinking this gentleman was trying to thread the needle here. A few complaints here, and a bunch of praise there. Don't want to offend the chief procurement officer!

      1. Gary Stewart Silver badge

        Re: Clearly...

        Somehow he's way ahead of you on that one. I guess there really is a first time for everything.

  2. Pascal Monett Silver badge

    "harder to do business with the US federal government"

    Oh, the poor widdle company can't suck on the government funds tit like it used to. Ain't that a shame.

    I'm sure a meeting with His Orangeness (with a great big envelope and a lot of arse-kissing) would solve the problem.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Good news

    "Donald Trump's DOGE cost-cutting unit has made it harder to do business with the US federal government, according to private cloud contender Nutanix."

    From the UK there are often comments asking why the gov is storing data on the 'cloud' so surely this is good to begin with. But the point of DOGE was to stop the spaffing of money so it sounds like a success to hear the money spigot was reduced. Good luck US

    1. Gary Stewart Silver badge

      Re: Good news

      "so it sounds like a success to hear the money spigot was reduced "

      Only because the back door is wide open so the cash can discretely, in plane (pun intended) sight be handed over to the "government" with a tiny stipend or merger approval going to the media to forget to mention it. Now we know what Trump and Vlad the Invader talked about and why Trump loves these little talks so much.

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