"Is Google's perpetual beta a winning strategy?"
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We have very high internal metrics our consumer products have to meet
before coming out of beta. Our teams co
I know we can read the fine print and see that we probably have 90
days if Google decides to pull the plug.
Where is Google headed with App Engine?
Is this product still going to be here five years from now? six months
from now?
The beta tag is something of a joke with gmail, they are already
ch
Hi,
For the record, App Engine is still in preview release.
-Marzia
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Ryan Lamansky wrote:
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> Gmail is still in beta... so I figure the App Engine has 10-20 years
> before it's "released" :)
>
> peterk is right; consider it "done" when it satisfies your needs :
Gmail is still in beta... so I figure the App Engine has 10-20 years
before it's "released" :)
peterk is right; consider it "done" when it satisfies your needs :)
-Ryan
On Mar 14, 11:25 am, Doug wrote:
> Is GAE still a preview release? I guess that I would have thought
> that when billing was
Google services and products are often held in seemingly perpetual
beta :p
I wouldn't worry about the designation too much. Billing was a major
step in making it a service usable for large, heavy-use, popular apps,
and perhaps makes it less easy for Google to hide behind the 'preview'
moniker whe
