On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:09 PM, javaDinosaur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

>
> I am starting to have doubts about continuing to develop my
> applications for GAE. My concerns are not technical although I have a
> some anxieties about transaction data propagation performance.
>
> My concerns center around Google's commitment to the App Engine
> project. Compared to Amazon's Web Service forums this place feels like
> a technical backwater. Developers hosting on Amazon AWS post
> interesting questions and get deep-dive replies promptly from Amazon
> staff. Amazon is releasing new Cloud development services monthly yet
> all we get is minor patches.
>
> Here on the GAE forum elementary questions about how GAE ticks go
> unanswered for months. Basic roadmap type info such as will we get SSL
> or scheduled tasks is missing.
>
> I just feel that the GAE Team is not building up any development
> stream in what should be the last 4 month run up to the year-end
> release. Communication with the developer community here is abysmal
> compared to the investment in developer relations made by companies
> such as Microsoft, Redhat or Amazon.
>
> What's happened to the early buzz Google? Has the top bass pinched
> half the team to firefight problems on another project?
>

I have to agree with the original poster, I assumed that by now we should
have had the paid service and the much waited ssl. We need a real commitment
from gae team so things here can jump from hobby to business, and by
business I don't mean we are going to move all our companies infrastructure
to GAE, but that small projects that have a good future could think of it as
what it proposed in the first place
http://sites.google.com/site/io/building-scalable-web-applications-with-google-app-engine

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