It seems to me that Windows Azure is a direct challenge for GAE. At equal capabilities and pricing, it would be a hard sell to tell any corporate user that they need to use a Google platform over a Microsoft platform
Now, if you are building a customer facing application from scratch, that doesn't matter. If you intend to be an ISV to businesses, the mere perception makes the difference. There is also the explicit statement from Microsoft that they will make it easier to do aggregates over distributed databases, which is the core of any reporting tool. They also said they aim to make analytics possible over time. The industry might find that credible, since Microsoft did it before with SQL Server and is "simply" running a distribution layer over SQL Server. Not a trivial problem, but perhaps a lesser problem than the one Google is facing. It hand has to come up with a scheme that allows Big Table to expand to areas it was not intended for, and in particular the ability to query data on any set of parameter, and summing/counting the results. Maybe this underdog position and clean slate allows Google to find new ways, more search-based, ultimately easier to use. I truely hope so. Meanwhile, Azure is not really yet available. Filip. On Oct 27, 8:16 pm, "Andrew Badera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, what's the GAE take on the MS Azure announcement at PDC today? > > Is it going to be competitive, or not even in the same ballpark? > > Will it force the GAE team to spend extra effort on a .NET implementation > for GAE? > > Thanks- > - Andy Badera > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - (518) 641-1280 > > -http://higherefficiency.net/ > -http://changeroundup.com/ > > -http://flipbitsnotburgers.blogspot.com/ > -http://andrew.badera.us/ > > - Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
