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themafia 2 hours ago

> buys software

To do what, exactly? This is public money being spent. Why are you so eager to be ignorant of it?

> from massive multinational.

Let's be honest: "Health company buys software from US defense monopolist."

> They also work with Google, Azure and AWS

Yes, and you and I can also buy those products and use them, do you use any of palantirs products in your daily life?

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crimsoneer 2 hours ago | parent [-]

who is ignorant of anything? Foundry is a pretty decently known product now, plenty of companies and gov departments use it. It's a B2B product but anybody can go spin up a test account or read the docs, none of it is secret?

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themafia 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> It's a B2B product

And how exactly is the NHS making use of it? What problems is it solving for them? What new capabilities do they have now that they've deployed it?

> who is ignorant of anything?

B2B is as generic of a label as you can get.

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crimsoneer 2 hours ago | parent [-]

They have a whole website to answer all these questions, and there's a fair bit on youtube etc? Honestly, I'm not sure why "what if we had a consistently available tech stack and data model" is that far fetched an idea though.

https://digital.nhs.uk/services/federated-data-platform

	▲	themafia 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> "what if we had a consistently available tech stack and data model" And Palantir is the only company that provides this? They didn't have this before? After they bought it what changed? Again, what new capabilities do they have now that they lacked before? What required them to make a deal with a defense contractor for a "consistent data model?" Did other ERP vendors not exist? It's 2026. Make this make sense. Justify their decision don't excuse it with hand waving. > is that far fetched an idea though. You are working really hard to ignore reality here. Basic accountability in spending tax payer funds is not a "far fetched idea." > https://digital.nhs.uk/services/federated-data-platform The deeper you dig into that site the more you discover the supposed benefits still had to be developed locally and merely rely on Foundry as a database. You're telling me the NHS had to make this highly questionable decision because they couldn't find a database vendor? This stinks. I'm sorry you can't or aren't willing to admit you smell it.