Guys, PAAS is the future, there is no doubt about that. Right now companies are wasting tons of money duplicating IT departments that run grossly under-utilized hardware. This is not going to last. Companies that go cloud will have a significant competitive advantage and win. I was just reading an article about how Facebook would not have been possible a few years earlier because the lack of cloud technology would have made their growth too costly and painful. There was a time, less than a decade ago, when tech startups would have to cut checks for half their seed money on the first day of business to the likes of Oracle, SUN, BEA, EMC, et al, just to get up and running. No more.
This is a new game, and OpenBD is early out the gate. We survived the toughest phase, and things will certainly and necessarily stabilize through time. Especially now, Google is releasing an SLA<http://code.google.com/appengine/sla.html> and are starting to take things seriously. I'd start pushing even harder right now - maybe even doing a big release to coincide with the SLA. It may even be time to rename "regular" OpenBD to Qwikster<http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/18/netflix-qwikster/>or something :) Baz On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Matthew Woodward <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:29 AM, nitish pandey <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I don't understand what is Enlist > > > Open source application for non-profit organizations to manage volunteers > and events. Since a lot of these organizations don't have IT infrastructure > or staff, making something available that can simply be deployed to GAE is a > nice option. > > >> VPS > > > Virtual private server. > > >> or how GAE eases life > > > See above--easy for people who don't have IT infrastructure/staff. > > >> but it would be most helpful if you guys focus on what would be for >> commercial initiatives. It would take care of others automatically. > > > Not sure I get what you mean by "commercial initiatives"--you'd have to > elaborate. To me the mission of the project is to provide a world-class free > software CFML engine for *all* purposes. > > >> >> If GAE is serious about being viable for commercial intiatives and it >> freezes its API (just like COM interfaces) only then it should be >> considered. >> > > Right, agreed--I keep thinking maybe at some point GAE will stabilize, but > there's still the issue of vendor lock because if at some point in the > future Google decides it isn't worth their effort they can deprecate it like > they do many of their initiatives and APIs on a regular basis. > > -- > Matthew Woodward > [email protected] > http://blog.mattwoodward.com > identi.ca / Twitter: @mpwoodward > > Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, > etc. as attachments. > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > -- > official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ > mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
