On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Gregory D'alesandre <gr...@google.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Ugorji <ugo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> +1 >> IMHO, This is the single biggest risk to Google with this move. The >> developers that adopted this did so out of trust, even when the platform was >> in preview mode and some runtimes were experimental. The price was right, >> and Google guaranteed that they would not pull the plug under us without >> giving us three year advance notice. With this, and the trust (mostly >> deserved), we went about happily enjoying all of this insane google >> engineering now at our fingertips. > > I can understand where you are coming from, but this is part of the reason > we want to go out of preview, so that you can be certain App Engine will be > around for a long time and things won't shift.
>From the blog post: "It will also reaffirm our deprecation policy whereby we will support deprecated versions of product APIs for 3 years, allowing applications written to prior API specifications to continue to function." Before this announcement we could be sure that App Engine would be around for at least 3 years. After the announcement we can be sure it will be around for at least... 3 years. -- 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.
