Eating one's own dog food http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_one's_own_dog_food or in this case: Using one's own cloud.
Amazon' cloud is based upon the IT technology they use within Amazon. Salesforce.com's Force.com offering is what they used to build their CRM system. These cloud vendors "Eat their own dog food". If a cloud vendor does not use their cloud offering for their other products and/or internal systems, one would have to assume that the cloud is viewed as a technology ghetto within their own corporation - good enough for others but not for ourselves. So, concerning the Google App Engine, are other groups within Google clamoring to port or build their offerings on top of the App Engine? If so, please be specific, what Google products and infrastructure and what are the schedules for their hosting on GAE? Is the GAE group supporting the Google Docs group as they move to use GAE? How about gmail, will the Google Gmail group be relying on GAE support? I have not seen emails from either of those internal Google groups on the GAE mailing list. Lastly, when will Google search be supported by the GAE group; Will those groups have to live under the same quota restrictions while they evaluate using GAE? If not, why not? If they are unreasonable for an internal evaluation, what makes them reasonable for an external evaluation? Evaluating whether or not GAE should be used for a particular application is not FREE even if one gets a very small slice of GAE resources with which to do the evaluation. Tens or hundreds of hours go into determine if GAE has the right characteristics and quotas that limit how fast one can work makes it worse. (Yes one can $$ for higher quotas, but during the evaluation phase $$ is out of the question.) Richard Emberson -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
