Palantir and Oracle buddy up on cloud infrastructure

Last week Oracle and US spy-tech company Palantir struck a cloud partnership, seemingly delighting investors and the news media. But its success may depend very much on customers' attitudes to Big Red's infrastructure offer. The deal – announced last Thursday – says Palantir employing Oracle's distributed cloud and AI …

[Pascal Monett]

Palantir and Oracle

Why am I not surprised that the sleaziest companies in IT somehow manage to always forge alliances ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Your'e not keeping track of market dynamics.

Oracle last quarter was $5b versus $22b for AWS and growing faster.

Their offering is cheaper and technically more capable for very large workloads.

[seven of five]

> Their offering is cheaper

LOL. Hey Larry, go fuck yourself, no one believes that. Not even at Oracle.

>and technically more capable for very large workloads.

Being currently in a massive shit-show of an OCI migration, I very much doubt that. Coming from ULA[1], Oracle Sales made us an offer we should not refuse, promised the sky and more, and now we are in week two after go-live, uptime so far less than a day, doing the indian tech support merry-go-round. All technical capability there might be is amoreliated by the lack of professionalism on their end.

[1] Yeah, I know,

[Anonymous Coward]

Having recently left an employer, mostly because of how much of a shitshow OCI is, I feel this.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's up to the customer because no company would want to natively support the pile of garbage that is OCI.