Would you rather have marquee logos on the Azure page or the paper billion dollar valued startups? For the govt it is probably about signaling and former is a safer choice similar to old saying 'nobody got fired for buying IBM'. This decision is certainly not based on merit.
Why is this such a bad decision? One indicator is that there are roughly 0 billion-dollar startups running on Azure, which shows what the best engineers / tech companies think about the platform and its prospects for the future. https://twitter.com/zackkanter/status/1187873181475823616 …pic.twitter.com/lQTWCwfsmk
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Paper-valued startups, like Datadog. Regardless, AWS has both.
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I'm less opposed to this. They are def trying to catch up But actually have heard a bunch of very strong engineers talk about azure positively.
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Isn't the US goverment closer to a legacy company so azure makes more sense?
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Zack. This is one contract. The government and DoD will surely be multi-cloud. I think it even says so in the article. There’s so many reasons for the gov not to only use one provider.
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The US Govt still runs on Windows. Client is half of the picture
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I would think that for establish business, is the safe smart choice. What Microsoft cannot produce, it will buy. That limits the risk of the platform dissapering, even more now that the contract from the pentagon
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Way off on this. Did reread your What is Amazon piece earlier this week. Was just as good the second time.
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Azure was the official color of my college sorority (Alpha Delta Pi)
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