Dear All, I’m a student at the University of Cambridge (UK) and I’m writing my dissertation on cloud computing platforms and how they facilitate innovation. One of my case studies is Google App Engine. Can anyone (preferably from Google) shortly answer a few questions for my research pls:
1. Is Google aiming at extending and customising Google Apps with Google App Engine, or is it more targeting at development and hosting of independent web applications? 2. Do you think Google App Engine can experience network effects (positive feedback) between users and applications, i.e. more users attract more application and vice versa? Perhaps the network effect can be exploit between Google Apps users and App Engine applications? 3. What are the benefits of App Engine to the Google’s core businesses? 4. What would you say to address developers’ fears about platform lock- in related to the BigTable database and Google specific APIs? 5. What was the reason to make Google App Engine open source? 6. Google is working on multi-tenancy for App Engine, will it be available in the Python or Java environments? 7. How important is App Engine in the internal development of Google applications (e.g. in Google Labs)? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
