Dear Google folks, We are about to launch into development, and we believe GAE represents our best choice of platform. What remains unclear to us is the pricing structure, and that lack of clarity is our last impediment to fully committing to GAE development. We are wondering if there is a timeline and/or update statement on these details available as we enter 2k11.
Our business process will have a mobile app that calls GAE, and will also have a website front end that will also call a portion of the same data from GAE. Our customers will be able to install the mobile app on many devices, all contacting the central GAE to push/pull data. Our customers will also be able to access some of that same data through the website front end. Will GAE charge on a per-mobile basis, or will they charge on a per "user" basis. If per user, what constitutes a "user?" Is each Oauth consumer token a user? Is our entire front end website a single user, or does each login to our website constitute a user? What about in the circumstances in which we host the website framework, but GAE functions as our backend data object source? What If our customers also request a custom application that their customers then download, and which pulls data from the GAE repository, do these customers of our clients also consitute users? Hopefully people can see how these kinds of questions are important to have clarified, and also that they influence where, how, and how much of the development resides inside of GAE. We appreciate any light you can shed on the topic, -Phil G -- 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.
