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Re:A prickly patriot: Palantir’s prospectus reveals losses, ... by arethuza on Friday August 28, 2020 @07:43AM (#24303724)
Amazon chose to invest money in growing its business - presumably with a lot of new products and infrastructure to support them.

Government and defence IT is a service business - where do you invest the money?

Note: I'm not saying they don't invest the money, just curious where it goes.

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Re:A prickly patriot: Palantir’s prospectus reveals losses, ... by pixl97 on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:56AM (#24304281)
Features, requirements, scope, datasets. It's not like services are cheap and easy to make.

The other part of .Gov contracting is integrating so tightly that you become a defacto standard that is not easily replaced. Then lobbying to ensure you keep that position.

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