> And Google is not in competing with the free or obscure services, they > are competing for the business market with Amazon, Microsoft and soon > Yahoo! and likely others as well.
I missed where anyone from Google claimed to be looking for businesses to develop their commercial applications on App Engine. Do you have any pointers to such public statements? > Google is in competition with those services TODAY I don't see how App Engine is "in competition" with Amazon. The services (GAE vs EC2/S3/SQS/etc.) are not comparable. Amazon's offerings are much lower-level, and require a great deal of tech savvy to exploit. I use (and adore) the Amazon stack where appropriate, but would never even think of using it for a web app like my wordle.net. It would be like building a whole factory, from scratch, to sell lemonade from my driveway. I don't know enough about the Microsoft and Yahoo offerings to compare them. The App Engine platform is a way to build massively scalable CRUD- style web apps by sticking to a few simple constraints. It's perfect for situational apps, one-offs, hobby projects, all of which can now survive slashdotting without arcane architectural hacks. What's not to love about that? Why criticize it for not being something it isn't designed to be? If I've missed any claims to the contrary from Google, again, please point me to them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
