Right and to what Alan said is an important point. That is, even thought with all the hype about Cloud and "no vendor" locking. In the end, you do have a vendor locking with such platform as Google App Engine. Best is to never put all your eggs in one place :-)
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Alan Williamson (aw2.0 cloud experts) <[email protected]> wrote: > Trust me ... a significant amount of engineering hours has been put into the > GAE branch, both pre (when Vince did his original port) and again by me when > I merged it into the main branch. > > But for all of Google's hype, there are major short comings with it. My > biggest concern, which is being realized now, is vendor lock in. At this > precise moment, due to a bug __THEY__ introduced, we are completely left > out in the cold until they fix it. They have no SLA. The bug has been > outstanding for 2weeks now, acknowledged by Google, yet no fix. > > How many businesses could afford to go offline for 2weeks at least with no > real end in sight? > > This is why i fear the likes of Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, > SalesForce Force.com -- they all suffer the same fate. Use them at your > own risk. > > We are living proof of what happens when clouds go bad > > At least with Amazon/Rackspace/GoGrid you can easily move between the > vendors. Assuming of course you aren't stupid enough to lock yourself into > Amazon's feature-set too much. It is vitally important you keep a level of > abstraction, to give yourself options when the lights go out for whatever > reason. > > > Peter Farrell wrote: >> >> I would really like to the see the GAE version move forward. Enlist is >> one app that is unique and would do really well being publically available >> on GAE. What can I do to help or encourage further dev? >> >> > > -- > official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ > mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > -- See for yourself how easy it is to manage files today. Join the revolution! Razuna - Hosted Digital Asset Management Solution http://www.razuna.com/ Razuna - Open Source Digital Asset Management http://www.razuna.org/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/razunahq Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/razunahq Support Platform - http://getsatisfaction.com/razuna -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
