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Source? I've heard this claim several times but I've not seen it substantiated. The original poster was asking for evidence explicitly as well.
by DetroitThrow 6y ago
Source? I've heard this claim several times but I've not seen it substantiated. The original poster was asking for evidence explicitly as well.
- nickff 6y agoTaibbi, Matt (25 February 2019). "This Battle of Billionaires Was Inevitable". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 25 February 2019. "This started as a lawsuit filed by would-be bid competitor Oracle, whose co-CEO, Safra Catz, is reportedly one of Trump's biggest supporters in Silicon Valley. The suit suggested Pentagon procurement officer Deap Ubhi's involvement in the JEDI negotiations constituted a conflict. Ubhi used to work for Amazon and in 2017 tweeted, "Once an Amazonian, always an Amazonian.""
- mikeyouse 6y agoTo be clear - He Tweeted that in response to Bezos opposing Trump's muslim ban.. it's much less nefarious in that context.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoHe then went back to work at AWS, same place he worked before his detour into government writing an AWS-biased RF.P
- tankenmate 6y agoIs there anything beyond the appearance of impropriety, is there anything technical in the RFP that strongly suggests either direct or indirect influence from AWS? (I ask this in all sincerity).
- wmf 6y agoThere are some requirements in the RFP, like RAM sizes and ruggedized hardware, that exactly matched AWS specs but not Azure (at the time).