Microsoft Wins Homeland Security Contract???
Microsoft Wins Homeland Security Contract
Jul 15, 5:35 pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday it has awarded a five-year, $90 million enterprise agreement to Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) to become the department's primary technology provider.
Under the contract, Microsoft will supply desktop and server software to the newly created department, which has merged parts of 22 different agencies into one entity.
The agreement delivers licensing coverage for about 140,000 desktops and will help the department to establish a common computing environment, Homeland Security said in a statement.
Dell Marketing LP. was selected as the reseller, to provide the day-to-day management of the enterprise agreement.
Jul 15, 5:35 pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday it has awarded a five-year, $90 million enterprise agreement to Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) to become the department's primary technology provider.
Under the contract, Microsoft will supply desktop and server software to the newly created department, which has merged parts of 22 different agencies into one entity.
The agreement delivers licensing coverage for about 140,000 desktops and will help the department to establish a common computing environment, Homeland Security said in a statement.
Dell Marketing LP. was selected as the reseller, to provide the day-to-day management of the enterprise agreement.
Comments
Were they invited to tender..?
I still get a kick out of seeing Bowers,et al ( 24hours )all using Macs..Way to go...
Now that is security...
Microsoft security is like very expensive swiss cheese..the more holes it has..the more expensive it becomes to buy.
All your base are belong to Al-Quaeda. Seriously.
It's all right, Bill-O is the one in charge of security in this joint.
(Sounds of a really wild party)
Originally posted by 1337_5L4Xx0R
ROTFL. 'Microsoft' and 'security' in the same sentence.
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Microsoft won this contract by demonstrating their supadoopa bomb detector program.
George Bush's pentagon officials...were all most deeply impressed by the complexity of the program..
No wonder they beat all competitors
Originally posted by LiquidR
My question. How quickly will this Homeland (I hate that term, sounds facist) computer system become a target for hackers, and how quickly will it fall? Anyone want to make a guess?
Hmmmm...tick tick.....about...Ten seconds..
unless Gates secretly subcontracts it out to Apple....
Originally posted by LiquidR
I hate that term [homeland security], sounds facist
The New York Times recently pointed out that German equivelant of the term "homeland security" was a catch-phrase in Nazi Germany.
Originally posted by LiquidR
Oh Hell, we're screwed here in the US now. Hmm, Canada, UK or Aus?
Well MI5 use NT amd Unix,
so we might be little better off than you lot, but only a little\
Originally posted by Chinney
The New York Times recently pointed out that German equivelant of the term "homeland security" was a catch-phrase in Nazi Germany.
And then there was this incident (back in 2001)...
From The Austin Chronicle:
Land Commissioner David Dewhurst, trying to jump start his campaign for lieutenant governor, advertised his recent appointment as director of the new state Task Force on Homeland Security in Texas Monthly -- and unwittingly featured in his ad a German Luftwaffe officer standing in front of an American flag.
Dewhurst's campaign for governor was successful, BTW.
The federal government has always been Microsoft's largest client for a while. Really, this was predictable and should not be shocking.
Also, it's not as simple as people in this thread would like to believe. Again, this is really nothing shocking.
AND this should go in general discussion