In my last post, I wrote about an equity research report stated traditional outsourcing companies are losing. However, the big giants are not retreating without a fight. This war is real and happening.
“IBM charged that the CIA improperly awarded the deal to Amazon Web Services by failing to evaluate all the pricing scenarios.”URL http://gigaom.com/2013/06/07/gao-says-not-so-fast-on-proposed-secret-amazon-cia-cloud/
The $600Mil is now re-opened. For sure, the earth loses a few trees as a direct consequences. But if looking at the big picture, it seems the transition to cloud computing is going to be nasty! With new technology, both the buyer and seller are new to the possibility created by innovative ways in managing computing resources. However, bureaucracy kicks in and The Government Accountability Office found that the CIA failed to evaluate prices comparably under one of the solicitation’s pricing scenarios, and that it had waived a requirement in the Request For Proposal only for Amazon.