Microsoft said to have dropped $3B Oracle deal over compliance gap
Microsoft was in advanced talks to lease cloud capacity from Oracle worth over $3 billion, but the deal is said to have collapsed over a security compliance issue. Oracle’s public cloud lacks FedRAMP certification, a requirement for handling U.S. government data. Oracle was unwilling to add the fram
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Microsoft was in advanced talks to lease cloud capacity from Oracle worth over $3 billion, but the deal is said to have collapsed over a security compliance issue. Oracle’s public cloud lacks FedRAMP certification, a requirement for handling U.S. government data. Oracle was unwilling to add the fram
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