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Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by jdminhbg on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @10:47PM (#13711460)
If always-on-from-everywhere is incremental, then what isn't incremental? Are smart phones an incremental change from desktops?
Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by nickpsecurity on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:26PM (#13711623)
If we give you that, they have one breakthrough over mainframes. That makes them "mainframes that are always on from everywhere." Mainframe apps were already doing that with terminal, thin clients, web apps, and so on. It was part of modernization efforts to give workers or customers better access to data or business logic on mainframes by putting better interfaces in front of them. Situation is improved today with cloud stuff but core capability was there.