Amazon's AWS has done a lot to promote cloud computing and built most of it on agnostic solutions and Open Source. And that is what has them leading in the $10B procurement that drew Oracle into this scam.
Note that neither IBM nor Microsoft--also contesting this jackpot--accepted the invitation to astroturf. They're competing the old-fashioned way. With open lobbying.
To me it's not about Amazon but about the ethics of the companies supporting the astroturfing. It's like the old lawyer saw:
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“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”
― Carl Sandburg
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In this case, neither quality, convenience, nor price are with them, so they call in the dept of dirty tricks.
It would be good to see a list of everybody playing the astroturf game, just to know who to avoid.