On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:50 AM, vivpuri <[email protected]> wrote: >> I understand that you are upset that your appengine bill might go up >> 4X, but how do you jump from this to the conclusion that "Google >> should support PHP"?? > > Every application development platform needs developers. iOS, AWS, > [...]
Nothing in that rant had anything to do with billing. If you want to start a separate thread for "want php" go ahead, or better yet star the issue. Or even better yet just use Quercus. The obvious conclusion from these billing changes is not that GAE needs developers, it's that GAE needs revenue. >> I think you assume too much. I interpret this as a temporary salve to >> keep Python developers from feeling like second-class citizens until >> multithreaded Python is available. > > I am not assuming too much. It's simple math. Besides that, i have > never seen a hosting company tell me that since PHP version x now has > support for this new feature. If you implement it, its good, else we > are going to change 4X for the server. You assume that because Python instances are now priced 1/2 Java instances, that this is a) permanent and b) reflective of the cost of a Python instance. It may just be a temporary salve to placate Python developers until multithreading is available. I've been fairly critical of the billing changes on this list, but you come across as a total wingnut. We have all (apparently) been living on the largess of Google - which is nice of them, except they didn't tell us about it. And the price signaling they were giving us was all wrong. There's a fair bit of reason to be upset about the changes (especially if you now need to redesign parts of your app), but you can't argue that these changes aren't rational. What isn't rational is how you are somehow trying to use this issue as a springboard for PHP advocacy. Jeff -- 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.
