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I didn't read it, and won't. Amazon got out played by msft. Bezos is an amateur compared to the likes of the DOD team at msft, buying a mansion in DC to host pa
by acruns 6y ago
I didn't read it, and won't. Amazon got out played by msft. Bezos is an amateur compared to the likes of the DOD team at msft, buying a mansion in DC to host parties, come on Bezos, such an amateur move. Getting into a public pissing match with the POTUS, stupid. Crying foul for months and months and then writing a story about your slippery slope theory, amateur, and locks you out of more cloud business with .gov. I have personally been through this process, albeit not a $10B contract but very very large, and it comes down to relationships. Jeff should be doing everything he can to steal away that msft sales team that came in and made them look like fools so they can win the next bid. He isn't playing against Barnes and Nobles, this is a corporation that will spend tens of millions developing a competing product and give it away for free for years to bankrupt it's competitors, they don't play fair.
- paganel 6y agoYou’re being downvoted for no good reason, fact is MS has a long history of winning government contracts using all available means, Amazon looks to me like the nerd who got into a street fight with only his glasses on, no gloves, no knives, no anything.
- ogn3rd 6y agoExcept that's not what happened.