[jeron]

>because the vendor is good at navigating the sales and compliance labyrinth to secure deals.

it's not just that. Alexandr Wang from Scale AI once said in a talk that they had to compete against Palantir for a gov contract. Palantir's salesmen have a high closing rate because they sell the software as if it were written by God itself. It's one hell of a sales strategy

[dylan604]

> It's one hell of a sales strategy

What happens when there's a bug in the software? Would that mean God is fallible after all? Could this be the plot line of Dogma++?

[red-iron-pine]

"we have 2394328423 devs on standby able to fix it if/when it happens. five 9s for all apps"

of course when shit actually hits the fan you'll still wait 4 days for a response

[senordevnyc]

What exactly is the incredible sales strategy here, overhyping to the point of blatant dishonesty? That's hardly unique...