Check out AppScale, they're funded by the NSF and Google. (I think Google has no intention of making money by running GAE as a hosting service... they just want to figure a way to mine your data and sell ads)
http://code.google.com/p/appscale/ <http://code.google.com/p/appscale/>I don't know that people would benefit much from having the literal Google Appengine code open sourced (except as an educational tool) since I'm not going to build a large clustered filesystem on top of a bunch of commodity hardware anytime soon.. With the AppScale model.. it's more easy to just map it to a bunch of EC2 instances in the cloud. On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Josh Rehman <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be great to run my own app engine, both for development, and > for production. Writing apps for a proprietary platform like GAE ties > you to the platform, as I'm sure Google is aware. So, is there any > chance the App Engine will be open-sourced such that it can be run on > non-Google hardware? > > -- > 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- 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.
