Here are some of my thoughts on topics raised in this thread: 1. Google has definitely abandoned this forum, no doubt about this… I am not sure if this is on purpose to force more people to buy paid support or just because of lack of leadership/ownership as @pdknsk suggests. But it is a fact. 2. However, abandoning the forum is not the same as Google abandoning Google App Engine. By many of my metrics GAE has been improving, I admit not with the pace I would have liked but it has been improving. 3. The arguments used to reach the conclusion of the paragraph cited mostly do not resonate with me. However, the conclusion does. 4. But so what? 89% of Google's revenue still comes from advertising. Even when it comes to cloud computing, the big battle is happening in IaaS and not in PaaS, and there AWS is the major player. So it is to be expected that GAE is not a major priority. But again so what? Google has about 45,000 full time employees. What if only, let’s say, 250 employees—I made this number up---work directly on GAE? It is a minor priority but it could still be a great platform especially when it leverages the Google infrastructure.
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