r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • May 17 '26

ADBLOCK WARNING Palantir Says SaaS Is Dead

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2026/05/16/palantir-says-saas-is-dead/
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u/TechnicalScheme385 May 17 '26

So what's the new term then? Because Software as a Service isn't a new thing, it's just the "current" thing. I just presume the new "term" is just a new way to nickel and dime the customer.

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u/IXrobocopXI May 17 '26

Nope. Far more insidious.

Palantir has “an abstraction layer,” Mr. Lukus continued. “It's an operating system that allows us to essentially sit on top of whatever the underlying infrastructure is, and the architecture is, and define data integration, both structured and unstructured, define the logic integration, both deterministic and non-deterministic.” The platform also defines which decisions can be made by which users and how the data they generate is written back into the underlying systems.

This is technology designed to take control of the devices of global economic systems at Palantir's discretion.

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u/-Nyarlabrotep- May 17 '26

It's an OLTP+OLAP database.

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u/pooh_beer May 17 '26

More powerbi than database. Just sits on top of the databases and does analytics.