Re:The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way'
by wharvle on Friday December 15, 2023 @01:20PM
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You point out Oracle as akin (but less entirely awful). I'd throw Palantir on the pile. Sell management on bullshit, then, once they've got their hooks in, it turns out they'll need to be way up your ass (and billing the whole time) to make any of it happen, and the entire process will be miserable. Another candidate for "begin insurgent activities as soon as the name is overheard" responses.
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Who would be a good name to suggest? I can’t imagine SAP would do a good job at it either.
AWS I suppose
Versus Palantir, I think was the intent of the question. IDK, from what I've seen they can't really do much more out-of-the-box than lots of other less-bullshitty data platforms, they're just far more aggressive about selling "consulting" services to get you all the features they told you they could do (and they can—with a bunch of custom development, just like any other platform)
I wouldn’t suggest a competitor in that line of business, because it’s not a line of business which should exist: fundamentally, it represents a firm wanting to bring in another firm to engage in its core line of business for it, because it no longer knows how to.
Well, if the firm doesn’t know how to engage in its core business, just fire the employees, close the offices, take the names off the buildings and return the capital to the owners!
How could anyone who has read or seen The Lord of the Rings think that a Palantir was anything but an existential threat?
Not all of the lost seeing stones have been accounted for. We don’t know who else may be listening.
> How could anyone who has read or seen The Lord of the Rings think that a Palantir was anything but an existential threat?
If they want to be Sauron.
That's Palantir Technologies' customer base.