How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington

Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by swingbridge on Sunday August 14, 2016 @01:25PM (#12286419)

I recently read how Palantir is currently suing the government because they got pissed the Army is considering dumping them and is trying to bid out the work to others. They're coming across as a bit desperate in this whole thing and to be fair they probably are since if Uncle Sam pulls out they're probably toast.

There was a lot of press a few months back about how they've been dumped by a lot of their private sector customers for costing too much and delivering too little. If the government catches on and and does the same thing that sort of destroys their business model.

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Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by analogmemory on Sunday August 14, 2016 @01:52PM (#12286560)

Are you kidding? The government LOVES to overpay for underwhelming software.

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Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by davidu on Sunday August 14, 2016 @07:08PM (#12287735)

That's really not accurate.

While it happens, there are many projects and efforts that are tightly controlled, managed, and executed.

And when projects go off the rails, people are generally pretty unhappy. The government is huge though, so bad apples and bad actors exist... but it's not accurate to write hyperbolically as you do.

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Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by us0r on Sunday August 14, 2016 @07:45PM (#12287845)

> but it's not accurate to write hyperbolically as you do.

Yes it is. Give me 5 on-time, on-budget IT projects I'll give you 50 that flopped.

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Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by oldmanjay on Sunday August 14, 2016 @07:46PM (#12287847)

It's one of those situations where 99% of the examples ruin it for the rest

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Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington by Aelinsaar on Sunday August 14, 2016 @01:28PM (#12286435)

Maybe after a few months, this is the PR course they've decided to take? If so... yikes.

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