On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Ugorji <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > IMHO, This is the single biggest risk to Google with this move. The > developers that adopted this did so out of trust, even when the platform was > in preview mode and some runtimes were experimental. The price was right, > and Google guaranteed that they would not pull the plug under us without > giving us three year advance notice. With this, and the trust (mostly > deserved), we went about happily enjoying all of this insane google > engineering now at our fingertips. >
I can understand where you are coming from, but this is part of the reason we want to go out of preview, so that you can be certain App Engine will be around for a long time and things won't shift. As long a product is preview, things can change at any point, we aren't changing prices arbitrarily, we are doing it so we can ensure the product is around for years to come and therefore we are able to leave preview. > It feels like the rug was pulled out from under us, and the unknowns are > killing us. > I'm working on an FAQ that should help answer many of the questions we've heard. > Google has always been very protective of their brand and their company's > DNA (which is rooted in trust and engineering). Let's hope all this concern > ends up being much ado about nothing. > To be clear, prices will be higher, but I've seen people quoting number such as 70x higher which should not be the case. Once we have the changes to the scheduler done as well as the comparative bills, you'll then be able to see how much it will actually cost. We could've waited until that point to talk about this but we wanted to give as much advance notice as possible. Thanks again for the questions and comments, its getting hard to get on the wifi, so just another pre-apology if I'm unable to answer additional questions for a while... Greg > > > -- > 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.
