The intentionally public feud between two powerful and deeply unappealing human beings continue — this time over a lucrative government contract which was award to Amazon rival Microsoftin October . Who will win , and can it please be neither of them ?
The contract bridge in question , Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure ( JEDI ) , is more or less a Defense Department purchase rules of order for $ 10 billion worth of swarm computing power . With prize on the communication channel and corporate ethics in question , the journeying this far has been a rocky one .
Googledropped outof the running play just weeks before the contract award annunciation , while Microsoft workersprotestedpotentially deep ties to the Pentagon . Oracle , another JEDI aspirant , filed suit against Amazon claim the mental process was biased . The fulcrum of that suit is a piece distinguish Deap Ubhi , a DoD official who , prior to and after the JEDI declaration , obtain roles as Amazon Web Service .
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Then , of course , is the prolong feud between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and President Donald Trump , which has since become a very utile pointer in the ship’s company ’s vibration , following its failure to clinch JEDI . “ President Trump ’s bias against Jeffrey P. Bezos , founder of AWS ’s parent company , Amazon.com , Inc. ( “ Amazon ” ) , is a matter of public record , ” a motion from the company , which was unsealed today , states . “ Even before taking office , President Trump campaigned on a hope that Amazon would “ have problem ” if he became President . ” Amazon first sued to contest the Defense Department ’s JEDI decision inearly November , again citing the President of the United States ’s personal vendetta against Bezos , as well as his willingness to , as today ’s motion compactly posit , “ disrupt the orderly governance of government part — include Union procurements — to advance personal motives . ”
Does Amazon have a point ? Absolutely . Trump has publicly attacked Bezos ( on one social function referring to him as “ Jeff Bozo ” ) for Amazon ’s parasitic kinship with theU.S. Postal Service , the company ’s riding habit ofsteamrollingbrick - and - mortar business , and its succeeder atavoiding taxes — though his best-loved axe to grind is with Bezos - have newspaper the Washington Post and its often critical coverage of the present ruinous administration . Most vividly , Trump allegedly say former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to “ get laid Amazon ” out of the muckle , accordingto Mattis ’s former speechwriter , Guy Snodgrass .
There ’s something exalt about determine the most politically muscular person and the richest mortal in the world spar in federal court over perceive personal insults . It ’s mostly awful , and disgust , but the scale make it exciting — like a plague or a Marvel crossover motion-picture show .
That said , what is the likeliness that Trump will be required to bear witness and will really comply with that monastic order if so ? slender , and approaching zero . The guy ’s disdain for process and convention of law are , in part , what he ’s being accused of in ratfucking Amazon out of $ 10 billion it dead does not need , and nothing suggests Trump ’s proclivities will ever change .
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