I second Adam's idea regarding Azure vs AppEngine. It comes down to C#/ ASP.NET vs Python/Java. What skills/developers do you have access to. If you have both a good Python and C#/ASP.NETdeveloper, I would probably go for GAE/Python because of Python's innate benefits such as being able to have more readable code (good for business expansion), rapid development, etc.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Adam <adam.crossl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And the second part of your question: Azure vs. GAE. I'm not aware of > any formal white papers that exist on this subject; although, I'll > wager cash money that Microsoft has a couple in the pipeline > somewhere. I work with both. I earn my salary being a happy trilobite > in the Microsoft ecosystem, so I have the C# and ASP.NET skills to > take good advantage of Azure. I'm also a hopeless Google fanatic, and > I got on-board with GAE on day one. > > My analysis: Azure and AppEngine are more like each other than any of > the other cloud computing platforms, such as Amazon's EC2. They both > give you a new programming model -- a sandbox -- to work in that > encourages you to architect your applications in a way that allows > them to take advantage of the instant, no-effort, on-demand scaling > that is the real, compelling advantage of the Cloud. > > They both give applications fairly generous free quotas that give the > developer and extremely-low cost-of-entry, enabling him of her to > build and deploy an application without up-front and.or monthly cash > outlays. If you are lucky/smart your application can be generating > enough revenue to more than cover its costs before you have to start > paying for resources. > > The main decision point between the two platforms comes down to the > technology that you want to use to build your web application. Do you > have access to C# and ASP.NET skills? Azure is a good choice. Do you > have a Python/Java open source guru handy? AppEngine is a winner. > > A secondary decision point might be your choice of development > platform. The Azure SDK will install and run on Vista or Windows > Server 2008, and you will need a Visual Studio 2008 license. On the > other hand, you can build AppEngine applications on Windows (XP, > Vista, 7, etc), MacOS or Linux. > > > -- Cheers, John Creative Director / Software Engineer Digital Eternal (http://www.digitaleternal.com) Web Design/Development, Business Strategy, Internet Advertising, SEO, Branding --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
