Oracle suspects Pentagon fell for a JEDI Prime trick: Amazon now accused of luring two officials with jobs

Amazon offered lucrative jobs to not one but two Pentagon officials deciding which tech giant will land the military's mega JEDI cloud contract, Oracle now claims. In an amended complaint (PDF) filed this week by the database giant in its lawsuit against the US government and Amazon, Oracle claims that a second Pentagon …

[Anonymous Coward]

Blakes 7

Thanks for that image. I have just been watching Blakes 7 again recently to see if it was good as I remembered it as a child. Season 1 down, 3 more to go. The stories and characters still hold up fairly well. The effects, not so much.

The young'uns where I work still cant quite work out why I get a particular look on my face when they start talking about the Server LAN.

[Inspector71]

Re: Blakes 7

I had to re-read the headline again. Thought it said "Orac suspects.....".That would explain a lot about how Big Red operates though.

[Simon Harris]

Re: Blakes 7 - stories and characters

Much as I'd love to see it done to modern standards and budgets, a new version would be hard pressed to find people to fill Paul Darrow's and Jaqueline Pearce's shoes.

[Arthur the cat]

Re: Blakes 7 - stories and characters

hard pressed to find people to fill Paul Darrow's and Jaqueline Pearce's shoes.

I don't think Jacqueline Pearce is remembered for her shoes.

[applebyJedi]

Re: Blakes 7 - stories and characters

You clearly haven't seen 'White Mischief'! That's what I'll remember Servalan for!

[MyffyW]

Re: Blakes 7

Whilst I always wanted to be Jenna or Cally, I have to admit Servalan is something of an eminence gris to me

[sawatts]

Re: Blakes 7

Still don't see the Blakes 7 connection in the article - other than generic space opera talk.

[Roj Blake]

Re: Blakes 7

You rang?

[I3N]

1/2 of DARPA's actual business model ...

Heard it twenty years ago ... heard it this year ...

[Duffaboy]

Dam you Elreg

For a moment I was drawn to the article thinking that much anticipated return of the much loved show and cheap sets would be making a return..

[Simon Harris]

Jedi, Phasers and Blakes 7 before we even get into the article?

Come on, El Reg, admit it - you only did that to start a flame war!

I'm just disappointed you couldn't fit Doctor Who in there too!

[applebyJedi]

ORAC

Are you suggesting that there is a truculent computer that they are working on, that can hack into all others computers?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: ORAC

"Surely it is obvious even to the meanest intelligence that during my development I would naturally become endowed with aspects of my creator's personality."

[TVU]

Oracle sues [insert name here]

^ No change there then (again).

[phuzz]

Re: Oracle sues [insert name here]

Oracle using lawyers to try and get what they want. Isn't that basically their business model?

[Doctor Syntax]

"migrate the entire IT infrastructure of America's military to a single cloud provider"

Is this something to do with eggs and basket?

[A.P. Veening]

Is this something to do with eggs and basket?

No, it is a brilliant idea, I only don't know whether it was suggested by the Russians or the Chinese.

[Anonymous Coward]

"migrate the entire IT infrastructure of America's military to a single cloud provider"

It’s migrating specific functions to AWS. Many of which are either with expensive legacy providers (including IBM and Oracle) or already in AWS’s GovCloud.

The final cloud solution is likely to consist of an office/email cloud provider (who knows who that could be...) to consolidate that part of the portfolio and a back office/middleware cloud provider (AWS), consolidation of the existing 300 data centres to ~1 per state plus specialist DCs for certain functions. Google also has a presence, although I believe their work is limited to the NSA as they haven’t met the required GovCloud requirements yet and their staff are not completely comfortable with the idea of working closely with the DoD. The “single provider” doesn’t really exist outside of Oracles claims.

The hope is to stabilise DoD IT spend at < US$20bn per annum as legacy providers are “taking the piss” and have repeatedly assisted the DoD with cost saving initiatives over the last 20 years that have resulted in on-going budget increases...

Oracle will lose eventually, but any wins along the way may delay inconvenient announcements to the market around significant capital write offs and revenue shortfalls due to changing “market conditions”. It’s possible that pork barrel manufacturers may suffer similar issues, although they maybe able to make up for this with larger deals with cloud providers...

[Voidstorm]

Globally accessible centralised single point of failure...

"For those not in the know, JEDI is a massive $10bn cloud services contract that will migrate the entire IT infrastructure of America's military to a single cloud provider."

What could possibly go wrong, one asks? //facepalm

[EnviableOne]

Larry Throws a paddy

Yet another Attempt by Oracle to prove that the Big Red and Big Blue combo is still relevant

Just because Larry decided cloud was a fad, and is 10 years behind AWS, 8 behind Microsoft and Google either of which could have got the cert and bid for the JEDI contract but decided not to.