Presumably most of the services offered here would be optional to buy? Document Search and SSL were two features on the survey and /some/ of the proposed prices were quite reasonable. My company currently offers SSL for GAE (until Google comes up with theirs) and our prices are in the middle of the range suggested in the survey. Seeing those suggested prices wasn't particularly an OMG moment. Frankly, I can't wait till Google comes up with the service.
The consulting and issue resolution services are another matter. Some of us make our living by providing that service and I would like to see Google do more to promote the services that the ecosystem provides rather than try and take it over. On Feb 10, 11:56 pm, James Broberg <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd recommend any/all app developers to go over and have look. I don't > want to get all worked up on something that hasn't happened yet but > some of the price points mooted in this survey are positively eye > watering. I'm happy to put my name to the feedback I left and I'd be > curious to see what others think. > > ------------------ > Honestly, the types of prices you are flagging here are pretty > concerning, even at the low end, and I can see it becoming > uneconomical very quickly once you add a few of these services on to > your account. I'd expect a substantial improvement in performance to > go along with these prices. > > It moves well away from the metered billing approach that is used now. > At the very least I'd like to see some packaging of these advanced > capabilities at a discount instead of getting nickeled and dimed for > them individually. > > As a GAE/J dev, it would lead me to seriously consider porting my app > to EC2/Beanstalk or other alternatives. When it is more cost effective > to run 4-5 instances 24/7 on EC2 (even if they are idle half the time) > than run my app on GAE then your doing it wrong. > ------------------ > > -James > > On 11 February 2011 10:34, Gregory D'alesandre <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello All, > > I'm one of the Product Managers on App Engine at Google. We are in the > > process of working on a number of features that you, our users, have been > > requesting for App Engine but, while this is happening, we wanted to get > > some additional thoughts and feedback! We've put an anonymous survey > > together, it is purely voluntary but the information from it will help us > > make decisions about the future of App Engine. > > Survey: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?authkey=COPt99s... > > Thank you all in advance for your time and thoughts! > > Greg Dalesandre > > Product Manager, Google App Engine > > Privacy disclosure: Survey data will be handled in accordance with Google's > > Privacy Policy <http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/privacy-policy.html>. > > Your email address will not be collected and will not be associated with > > your survey answers > > > -- > > 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. -- 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.
