[Someone1234]

Background:

Oracle made a complaint to the Government Accountability Office last year that was essentially "it is unfair to award ALL $10B to just one company." The GAO disagreed with the following reasoning:

> the Defense Department’s decision to pursue a single-award approach to obtain these cloud services is consistent with applicable statutes (and regulations) because the agency reasonably determined that a single-award approach is in the government’s best interests for various reasons, including national security concerns, as the statute allows

So now Oracle is suing the US Government with exactly the same complaint.

Oracle Senior Vice President Ken Glueck is a statement claimed that they're worried the DoD is going to be "locked into" another cloud vendor and that a single vendor "is out of sync with industry’s multi-cloud strategy" Make of that as you will.

[mathattack]

Yes. And try to get Oracle to play nicely with Microsoft Technologies.

Having multiple vendors is great, but here they are just talking their book. Do they pitch multiple database strategies too?

[dsfyu404ed]

At my employer we're working on just that. It's a hell of a task.