Google App Engine Preview For Enterprise Applications

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Google is offering to host enterprise web applications on its own infrastructure with a new tool for developers, App Engine.

Google's goal is to make it easy to get started with a new web application, and then make it easy to scale when that application reaches the point where it's receiving significant traffic and has millions of users, Google said in its new App Engine blog.

The search giant is treading lightly, so far. The version launched on Monday is a preview release, and is by no means feature complete, according to Google. Only 10,000 developers will be able to sign up initially, but that number will increase.

Google App Engine Preview For Enterprise Applications [pcworld.com]

[pontifex]

interesting find. the pricing will be the key. also PHP should be added - then it is worth a look!
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[ashishp]

Amen. Learning a new language just to use the platform does not seem worth. PHP would rock.

That said, it is pretty nifty. There were slight hiccups in the Hello World tutorial, but the group had workarounds posted and then things went fine.

[vincevincevince]

Interesting that as soon as I tried to post into the live test app, it required me to sign into a Google account. I do hope that can be overwritten!

[gaouzief]

"A free account can use up to 500MB of persistent storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million page views a month."

Well that's pretty low IMO, i would not trade my cheap dedicated celeron server (that can serve much more) for this