[google-appengine] Re: One senses GAE is just not a major priority for Google

2014-10-31 Thread pdknsk
Well, it isn't a major priority, but maybe it doesn't need to be. I think the main problem is that nobody at Google seems to take ownership of App Engine. PMs are rotated in and out at high frequency. I have no insight of any kind, so I may be wrong. -- You received this message because you

Re: [google-appengine] Re: One senses GAE is just not a major priority for Google

2014-10-31 Thread PK
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.

[google-appengine] Re: One senses GAE is just not a major priority for Google

2014-10-31 Thread Tapir
On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 5:11:15 AM UTC+8, Emanuele Ziglioli wrote: I would find hard to disagree: *IBM, Google, and Oracle are all equally at pains to deliver a message that makes them uniquely attractive. In this regard, Google's inability to recover from the botched roll-out of

Re: [google-appengine] Re: One senses GAE is just not a major priority for Google

2014-10-31 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
Google officially 'abandoned' this forum when they moved general support to stackoverflow, so that's nothing new. And let's be honest, there was really only one person reliably following this forum before then - Ikai. Occasionally other @google.com folks would chime in but it was pretty much a one

Re: [google-appengine] Re: One senses GAE is just not a major priority for Google

2014-10-31 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
I agree. I thought that article was basically a fluff piece written by someone who has never actually used GAE. Nobody ever cared about the subset of Java issue except Sun who, as non-users, count only as whiners (no, Java's mine, you have to use it the way I want!). And the very old version of