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It’s official: AWS is challenging Microsoft’s $10 billion JEDI contract win — ZDNet

AWS made the company's decision to file paperwork to challenge the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) public, writes Mary Jo Foley. Here is the link:...

Michigan State University switching from mainframe to cloud

Michigan State University, has engaged Oracle to replace its mainframe student information system infrastructure.

Remembering Mark Hurd, Oracle’s brash co-CEO — Fortune

Adam Lashinsky, whochronicled the Silicon Valley chapter of Hurd’s life, writes. Here is the link: https://fortune.com/2019/10/18/mark-hurd-oracle-co-ceo-remembering/

Amazon’s Consumer Business Just Turned off its Final Oracle Database — AWS News Blog

Amazon’s Consumer business just turned off its final Oracle database (some third-party applications are tightly bound to Oracle and were not migrated), writes Jeff...

Oracle shelves Larry Ellison’s dream of cloud dominance — Bloomberg Businessweek

The company’s goal is no longer to dethrone Amazon Web Services but to remain competitive in databases and applications, writes Nico Grant. Here is the...