I'm not a VC and haven't taken any money from them. But I will say throw my opinion into the ring:
Of all the "causes-of-failure" a startup can experience, "Google shuts down appengine and team is wholly unable to migrate to new platform" is so far down the list that it might as well go next to meteor impacts and alien invasions. In an Goopocalypse scenario, any app can be migrated off of appengine. It just takes all the work that you would otherwise have to invest right now building out your own infrastructure. On the other hand, if using GAE provides a 10% reduction in the likelihood of catastrophic operational failure, this is a clear win. Not to mention cost savings by not hiring sysadmins, dbas, and build engineers. I'd like to meet one of these VCs and talk some clue into them. Jeff On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Tim <meer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. > -- 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.
