I guess what you are proposing is marketing / promotions using established products so people get to know GAE and once they try it they move everything to it.
Unfortunately I think that is not the case. I guess the guys&girls at StackOverflow know of GAE - maybe they haven't thought about using it, right. But that's just StackOverflow. There are thousands of other sites of this scale. I don't know of any site the size of StackOverflow that runs on AppEngine. As stated before, I think Google should try to tailor GAE exactly to sites like StackOverflow. Sites that just hit the serving-out-of-one-box-problem. I doubt that a wordpress hosting plan would get StackOverflow on board. IMHO Google should tell StackOverflow to move to GAE and Google should cover the hosting costs in exchange for a "powered by GAE" on all StackOverflow sites. That would be great marketing. But I'm afraid it's not only about marketing. I think there are other reasons why sites like StackOverflow don't use GAE. Herevare two obvious ones to start with: Pricing & fulltext search. I would be very interested in what other ones are. This basically boils down to: If StackOverflow doesn't want to run on GAE for good reasons, I dont want to run on GAE either! I'm interested in a vivid discussion :) I tried to get Nick Craver, the author of the Blog post to join and posted a comment on his blog. Cheers, -Andrin On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Brandon Wirtz <drak...@digerat.com> wrote: > ** ** > > >Man this is such a great article, but I was really hoping to read the > sentence: "And so we decided to move StackOverflow to AppEngine".**** > > ** ** > > If Gae Wanted to outright win the cloud wars, in the next 180 days. They’d > make a Wordpress fork specific to GAE, and a MineCraft server that ran on > GAE. > > That’s how you get talked about, and how you get new deployments by > people. If you had everyone who wanted infinite scale wordpress running on > GAE every marketing guy would say, “oh yeah we moved our blog to Google’s > cloud” and suddenly it would be “approachable, tangible, and real” Right > now, there is not a lot of off the shelf stuff for GAE, and none of it is > Mainstream. > > Minecraft is about hooking the kids young. You can do that with clouds, > but not smoking. Not sure why that is, but those are the rules.**** > > > > **** > > -- > 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.
