A US Court of Appeals has rejected Oracle's challenge over the awarding of a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft in 2019. The decision affirmed a lower court ruling that Oracle wasn't harmed by any errors made by the Pentagon while creating the contract proposal as the company qualify as a legitimate bidder, as reported by Bloomberg.
Oracle raised a number of complaints, including that the Pentagon violated its own rules when it set up the contract to be awarded to a single firm, arguing that by calling for extensive data centre capabilities it unfairly excluded Oracle from the process.
The company also filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defence (DoD) in December, arguing that there were conflicts of interest between former Pentagon and AWS employees...MORE
