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They do have a history of that, but AppEngine has a huge footprint right now, and Google is only expanding it's cloud platform with Compute Engine, redoing UI,
by codonaut 13y ago
They do have a history of that, but AppEngine has a huge footprint right now, and Google is only expanding it's cloud platform with Compute Engine, redoing UI, etc. They're clearly investing a lot here, I don't think they'll close this as easily as Google Checkout or others
- ryan-allen 13y agoI supposed, but would you risk your business by locking yourself in to their platform?
- zafirk 13y agoPeter Magnusson from the App Engine team recently wrote about the lock-in argument: http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/25/google-app-engine-lock-in-what-lock-in/ http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/25/google-app-engine-lock-in-...
- j_s 13y agoI recently discovered this project as a replacement if you're using Java on App Engine: http://www.jboss.org/capedwarf http://www.jboss.org/capedwarf
- kodablah 13y agoThere is also https://github.com/AppScale/appscale https://github.com/AppScale/appscale
- benatkin 13y agoI thought Google Reader was too big to be shut down too. It had a small % of all users but a large % of power users.
- yeukhon 13y agoFree services are not guarnateed to remain open. Paid services can continue to live for a long time until market share shrinks so low. GAE can't. It has a deep root in the market.