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It’s promoted as a complete system, but you end up paying them to build out the system to do whatever you wanted to do.
by fourthark 5y ago
It’s promoted as a complete system, but you end up paying them to build out the system to do whatever you wanted to do.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoRight, AI is just custom software, with people in the back to deal with edge cases?
- goatherders 5y agoIBM, Oracle, Panatir....in a lot of cases these are pro services companies that custom build whatever is needed. LOTS of money in enterprise application development.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoOracle is a expensive and "popular" database, IBM does many things ( eg. Quantum computers, ... ) Palantir is a consultancy body shop with a dashboard product and a probably good pipeline for merging data. ( Reference - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11646587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11646587 ) Pure consultancy is rated much lower ( eg. Thoughtworks if you want a reference)
- ethbr0 5y agoConsultancy + adaptable software is a decent business model. Unfortunately "adaptable software" for {insert industry} is a really hard target to architect right. Especially when the majority of your tech headcount bills by the hour and gets paid to tell the customer "Yes."
- NicoJuicy 5y agoI didn't say it isn't a decent business model. In the context of pltr, I'm saying it's not similar as Oracle/ibm and comparison is futile.
- marsRoverDev 5y agoYeah, that is patently untrue.
- fourthark 5y agoHow so?
- yellowapple 5y agoThat's how it is for just about any non-trivial business system. They're sold as complete systems, but there's still customization required for those systems to actually fit the business - and it's through offering consulting for those customizations that enterprise software vendors make the big bucks.