I think Sun didn't have clear ideas on what was possible and what clients wanted. They didn't separate their business in hardware and JavaSoft apart and that bad management decision took its toll.
Microsoft is doing the same mistake: Is it a toy maker or a hardware maker or an operating system maker or a service provider like Google? I find today GAE is similar to the old Apple II in 1975. It took 5 years for IBM to catch up with the IBM PC, haven't it created a more powerful system and open sourced its design, we would all be using Motorola's CPUs... The main advantage GAE provides now is potentially unlimited scalability (only limited by hardware). Since hardware is going to get really cheap in the following decade, with SSDs and multicore CPUs everywhere, customers will not want to continue managing thousands of computers by hand, but let cloud companies provide almost free services like this. Now Java belongs to Oracle, so I bet Oracle will want to produce some competng product/service...without ruining the DB market it already has... On 24 feb, 13:57, Paul Hammant <p...@hammant.org> wrote: > Nope, but one *imagines* that others (Spring/VMWare, JBoss/RedHat, > Oracle/Sun/Tangasol, Terracotta, Gigaspaces and Intalio/Jetty) are part way > through delivery, or are planning, or finding partners. > > There's a huge attraction to the tiny resource requirement to maintain a WAR > file deployment versus the large requirements of a EC2 style VM. Presuming > the servlet container is shared amongst many apps of course. > > One wonders why Sun did not do this ten years ago. > > - Paul > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:39 AM, A1programmer > <derrick.simp...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Are there any good alternatives to Google App Engine out there? > > > I am finding that I cannot rely on GAE for a production quality > > environment. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine-java%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
