On Monday, April 4, 2011 6:42:31 PM UTC+1, Brandon Wirtz wrote: > > Current thinking on VCs around App Engine Powered startups is unfortunately > negative. VCs are aware that Google often kills beta products or > drastically changes the economics of products they offer at a price. When > GAE comes out of beta this may change, but currently the risk as a VC is > that an App Engine Powered Startup gets to 10M users and 1M lines of code, > and Google decides it isn’t in the App engine business, any more. All of > sudden you are homeless and without a compatible alternative. > > Isn't Typhoon
http://code.google.com/p/typhoonae/ a good enough argument for having a compatible alternative ?? I mean, it's not guaranteed to be 100% compatible (as a victim of many "SQL database ports" and the like, I'd ask what ever is?) but it matches the API, it's open source so you can trace what's gone wrong, and you can run it up on your own hardware. And if you really wanted to be sure, you could spend a week or so testing an anticipatory port now - you might be pleasantly surprised, or maybe find some fixes to suggest back and help the project. Plus, I’m hoping Google will just buy me before I get to that point, and > then if they close the project I’ll already be paid out :-) > You and me both pal, you and me both... :) -- T -- 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.
