Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
by gaius on Sunday July 02, 2017 @06:49AM
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but the complexity of their software stack isn't even on that list
Yes it was. Building an integrated web/email/etc client was harder than they thought it would be, and then there was the Javagator fiasco.
But what really killed Netscape the company - which was planning to give the browser away anyway to create demand for their expensive server products - was that version 3 of Netscape Enterprise Server was terrible. The only thing less reliable than it was the watchdog process that came with it that was supposed to restart it when (not if) it crashed...
Yes it was. Building an integrated web/email/etc client was harder than they thought it would be, and then there was the Javagator fiasco.
But what really killed Netscape the company - which was planning to give the browser away anyway to create demand for their expensive server products - was that version 3 of Netscape Enterprise Server was terrible. The only thing less reliable than it was the watchdog process that came with it that was supposed to restart it when (not if) it crashed...