[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-29 Thread NealWalters
Feel free to contact me about contracting. My website on my profile will lead to my phone. You can see my activity on the Google Python forum for the past few months: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-python/search?group=google-appengine-pythonq=nealwaltersqt_g=Search+this+group

[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-27 Thread Calvin Slayden
Azure also has SQL as a (more expensive) option, which, for some applications, is a very compelling choice over Azure and GAE's table storage. If you don't need it, though, it shouldn't factor into your decision. I'm sure there will be whitepapers galore, and there are some significant

[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-15 Thread Adam
I'd say that your best bet for finding developers who are able to work on AppEngine applications is by posting a message right here in this group as well as in the google-appengine-python group. I do AppEngine consulting, and a couple of clients have found me here already. I'm sure that I'm not

[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-15 Thread Adam
And the second part of your question: Azure vs. GAE. I'm not aware of any formal white papers that exist on this subject; although, I'll wager cash money that Microsoft has a couple in the pipeline somewhere. I work with both. I earn my salary being a happy trilobite in the Microsoft ecosystem,

[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Badera
Actually Azure team announced commercial availability and pricing yesterday. I don't believe production software, or any storage, will have a free quota any longer: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/07/14/confirming-commercial-availability-and-announcing-business-model.aspx#

[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-15 Thread John
I second Adam's idea regarding Azure vs AppEngine. It comes down to C#/ ASP.NET vs Python/Java. What skills/developers do you have access to. If you have both a good Python and C#/ASP.NETdeveloper, I would probably go for GAE/Python because of Python's innate benefits such as being able to have

[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Badera
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Adam adam.crossl...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 15, 2:08 pm, mytemp mytempjunkm...@gmail.com wrote: So, if I had access to a rockstar Python/GAE person (or two)... at a reasonable price, I think I'd just go GAE. Anyone? I definitely agree with this. All