6 ms·

pretty affordable compared to most enterprise software packages

• bicknergseng 12y ago
  "per core"
  • trhway 12y ago
    with 90 days warranty :) Can it rot? Anyway, from their Gotham page https://www.palantir.com/palantir-gotham/ https://www.palantir.com/palantir-gotham/ "Working closely with the customer, our engineers integrate and map all of the relevant source data—regardless of type or volume—into a single, coherent model. ... Once the model has been created, data flows continuously from its sources into the Palantir Gotham platform. ... They can search across all of their data sources at once, visualize relationships, explore divergent hypotheses, discover unknown connections, " Pretty much my 2009 pitch, and in the hindsight i see that my main weakness was that i couldn't even imagine $150K/core. Man, it is imagination what separates losers from winners! :)
    • gerbal 12y ago
      > it is imagination what separates losers from winners! :) Imagination and lucrative government contracts.
      • crazypyro 12y ago
        And a billion dollars that was used to pay off a competitor after stealing their technology.
  • sz4kerto 12y ago
    kdb, a database engine I consider extremely simple compared to Palantir costs $50k/yr/core.
    • mmcclellan 12y ago
      simple but competent for time series. and the 32-bit version is at least available for free now.