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Some of the wording in the article, like "data trove", implies that Palantir has a central repo for all their data. From what I know, this isn't the case; a lot
by pcsanwald 9y ago
Some of the wording in the article, like "data trove", implies that Palantir has a central repo for all their data. From what I know, this isn't the case; a lot of government contracts mandate on-prem deployments, often on air gapped networks. The Police data might be an exception, though. I'm curious if anyone knows if this is the case?
The rest of the article paints the process in a light that has been mentioned many times: They are a very successful consulting business.
- avs733 9y agoconscious that this probably sounds glib... mandates and has are (in my experience) very different things in military systems. I would suspect that the police systems, as are a lot of military systems, far less likely to be airgapped mostly for purposes of convienience I think the article is making the point that they are 'successful' in an economic sense but posing the question of whether this is an appropriate place for that type of success or the pursuit of that type of success. The potential for malfeasance seems particularly high.
- pcsanwald 9y agothat might be true, but my experience is that generally, these kind of software deployments are really actually on-prem and aren't using AWS (or similar) under the covers. This was the certainly the case for my last employer, that sold very similar software. My remark at the end, I should have added emphasis on "consulting". my point was not so much that they are successful, but rather, they seem to operate as a consulting company, whilst portraying themselves as a seller of software.
- avs733 9y agofair and agreed. I have to be careful with Palantir that my personal disgust with them doesn't leak into my logic.
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