[blister]

DISA is a big group. They have mountains of RedHat instances already as well. I would bet they've probably got a billion dollars or so invested in the RedHat infrastructure.

If I had to hazard a guess without seeing the SOW/PWS, I would bet that most of this MS contract would cover desktop support services.

DISA supports IT services for a huge portion of the DoD. This is basically a Fortune 100 company in terms of employees and scale.

[nkassis]

Probably more like multiple Fortune 100 companies combined.

[niels_olson]

Are we talking DoD or DISA? DISA is probably close to a Fortune 100 company. DoD's annual spend exceeds Apple's market cap. The annual research budget is $40B+