Google services and products are often held in seemingly perpetual
beta :p

I wouldn't worry about the designation too much. Billing was a major
step in making it a service usable for large, heavy-use, popular apps,
and perhaps makes it less easy for Google to hide behind the 'preview'
moniker when it comes to certain basic expectations about how the
service will perform etc. But GAE still doesn't have quality-of-
service guarantees or a SLA..I wouldn't expect them to drop the
preview label until something like that is added, at the very
earliest.

I think google knows something has to be of 'merchantable quality'
before they can start charging for it..so I think the introduction of
billing was an expression of their confidence in their ability to
maintain a reasonable, sellable, level of service quality. From our
point of view, if we're paying customers, it gives us more leeway to
complain when things go wrong, and Google knows that.

On Mar 14, 4:25 pm, Doug <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is GAE still a preview release?  I guess that I would have thought
> that when billing was enabled that it would have lost its preview
> release status.
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
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