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by fishcakes 4181 days ago
On one hand, it is true they deploy people to implement the software.

On the other hand, the customer has results after 6-8 weeks. How much software can really be built in that sort of time frame? Not much...

In my opinion Palantir is a product company, but the product is deeply integrated in to an enterprise. And doing that takes time and people.
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spacecowboy_lon 4180 days ago
so does HPCC from lexis nexis as woudl doing a roll your own solution either using AWS or your own cluster
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capkutay 4180 days ago
I would debate that...if your 'product' takes a team of stanford engineers to actually deploy at an enterprise, then it's probably closer to a dev framework.
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jonstewart 4180 days ago
No, it's a bog-standard on-premise "Enterprise" product, like Oracle, SAP, etc. This is how that business model works. The customer pays _both_ for the software _and_ for the on-site engineers, usually through the nose.
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gkoberger 4180 days ago
Well, they need a way to get up-to-date data into the system from whatever it's coming from. That alone requires someone to write code. They probably also do some customizing of what data is displayed; maybe via a GUI or maybe via code. But that's just the last mile (on each end) that needs customization.

I don't see how you can simplify that into calling it a "dev framework".

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ethbro 4180 days ago
> if your 'product' takes a team of stanford engineers to actually deploy at an enterprise, then it's probably closer to a dev framework

Fair enough. But you may be underestimating the value of production-quality fast-development dev frameworks in enterprise.

Remember, these are guys who are used to seeing 5-year project timelines for anything that touches more than one system. (And every business case touches more than one system...)

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