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> What's your comprehensive alternative? Why can't they build this themselves? If the DoD is such a large customer, has such precise needs and requirements, th
by maxsilver 8y ago
> What's your comprehensive alternative?
Why can't they build this themselves? If the DoD is such a large customer, has such precise needs and requirements, they should build their own datacenters with their own staff and manage it in-house.
> (snip) And you're probably going to have to do that with other people. Probably in the form of a corporation.
The government manages a nuclear arsenal and a space flight program. There's no valid reason they couldn't build and run their own server farm without giving it all away to Amazon/Microsoft/Google/Oracle. There's no good reason everything in the entire nation has to be privatized like this.
- stale2002 8y agoWell,sure they COULD build it. But maybe that would cost 2-3-4 times as much as buying it? Why shouldn't they instead go with the best in the world? Presumably, the whole reason why they are doing this, is because they DID build it themselves a decade or so ago, and it didn't result in the best outcome. Government IT has quite a terrible reputation these days. The government should instead be pushing to have the best in the world.
- massysett 8y agoThe nuclear arsenal is maintained with the help of a huge complex of contractors.