On 06.09.2011, at 12:42, michael wrote: > purely speculation but I'd be willing to bet... > • App Engine was close to going the way of Wave, the free translate API > and Labs. > > • someone/some group pushed back hard for one last chance to make it > profitable with the new pricing model > > • 2011 4th quarter is the make|break time for app engine. If it doesn't > become profitable right away with the new pricing then the 3 year clock will > start ticking, probably no later than the 2nd quarter of 2012 > > I think it's unfair to cast the GAE team as being party to any kind of bait > and switch strategy. From the outside looking in it appears the culture is > changing from being engineering/ideas driven to being business/profit driven > and GAE is just trying to survive the transition. As a very early GAE > adopter, promoter and someone who built a thriving business on Google API's I > hope they get lucky and make it.
This sounds quite plausible to me. :( If that's the case then I also hope that this interesting initiative called GAE could survive. -- 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.
