In the competitive federal information technology market, Google thought it was a good idea to challenge the U.S. Interior Department on a potentially rich procurement for hosted messaging services. Google claimed that Interior failed to observe government contracting policies by focusing on Microsoft offerings to the exclusion of Google’s products.At first, Google’s move looked smart, as a federal court admonished the Interior Department for faulty practices.Now, it looks as though Google’s plan may fall into the “be careful what you wish for” realm.Using documents that just surfaced from the court case, Microsoft unloaded on Google, essentially claiming that it lied about the security capabilities of its cloud-oriented Apps for Government. In a blogging duel, Google retorted that Microsoft’s comments were hogwash.Aside from being a great spectator sport for geeks, the rift between the two technology giants could make the atmosphere for federal use of cloud technologies considerably more, well, cloudy. Under the gun to migrate quickly to cloud platforms, already reticent federal contract officers may use the claim and counterclaim tactics of big vendors to slow down — or even pass up — cloud adoptions.”The marketing spin can become excessive. Some agency people can sift through this stuff, but for… Read full this story
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