Enterprise pricing and GAE aren't in the same universe, unless we're talking about enterprises that run out of the back of a truck. "Enterprise" is where they ask for your phone number, and then get an expensive salesperson to figure out how much you value the product, and then charge you that. This is free to start, 9 bucks a month to enable billing, mostly usage-based and very few customers will ever have a monthly GAE cost that equals that of hiring their next employee.
Compare Oracle, SQL Server or SAP to GAE, just for some perspective. GAE is exceptionally startup-friendly, unless you have a startup that will never have revenue. On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 4:59:13 AM UTC+2, stevep wrote: > > Google is a bit schizophrenic right now IMHO. Its pricing is enterprise, > yet it still desires the startup developers' halo (appealing to their > desire for high-productivity). So GAE product managers have been riding the > backs of startup developers who chafe at the enterprise-level pricing while > waiting for enterprise CIOs to lose their fear of GAE's PaaS lock-in. > Recent lowering for SSL monthly costs (and posts by new GAE PMs) suggests > some internal debate. You may or may not be in the final product's pricing > schema. Unfortunately I believe these are the pains we suffer as a very > intelligent set of engineers gain an understanding of value-added services > (as opposed to Amazon who makes no mistakes re: providing value-added > services). Remember: Google is a great adwords/adsense company trying to > expand to value-added services. GAE is pretty new for them. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/2y6l_7rxszcJ. 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.
