There was a theory that GAE was started using Google's own infra-structure so they can absorb startups who run on GAE easily. E.g. Think about if twitter was started on GAE, if they dont enough revenue to keep running it, Google can take it and make its own service without any technical transition.
I think that vision has gone with the colleagues (if it did exist). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/Z3ri-rR94fkJ. 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.