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pretty affordable compared to most enterprise software packages



"per core"


with 90 days warranty :) Can it rot?

Anyway, from their Gotham page 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.

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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! :)


> it is imagination what separates losers from winners! :)

Imagination and lucrative government contracts.


And a billion dollars that was used to pay off a competitor after stealing their technology.


kdb, a database engine I consider extremely simple compared to Palantir costs $50k/yr/core.


simple but competent for time series. and the 32-bit version is at least available for free now.




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