Competition is a good thing
Apr 8th, 2008 by sharps
Yesterday Google announced Google App Engine - essentially a competitor to AWS (Amazon Web Services) providing storage, execution and secure, reliable “web I/O”. Right now - you have to write your apps. in Python;but they also provide Django (web app framework for Python) - which is pretty neat from the little I’ve seen of it. Looks like they also provide some additional hooks for using Google’s auth. and mail services - which I guess could be Google’s attempt to make these cool new apps. “Google only Apps.”.
Potential Evilness aside, this is a pretty exciting time if you’re developing an app. for the Web - the cost of deploying / hosting your cool idea is no longer a hurdle. Competition is a good thing.
When is Sun’s Project Caroline coming out?
Mikael, good question but I don’t know the answer and no longer work for sun so can’t find out.
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