The Future of Enterprise Apps: Google App Engine

April 8, 2008 · Filed Under Google, Open Source 

Yesterday Google launched the Google App Engine, a service that lets developers deploy web applications using Google’sGoogle App Engine infrastructure. This is Google’s foray into cloud computing, and the service competes directly with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Why is this the future? Because developers no longer have to be as concerned with the infrastructure that supports the application. This is a huge step forward, as their focus can be on the application and business logic, rather than coding around potential network problems or other performance issues.
Certainly it will be some time before this model is widely adopted, as the current services have some severe limitations. For example, Google only supports Python, Amazon EC2 is Linux based. However, as the services mature, they will become the next logical steps for enterprise software developers looking to capitalize on the advantages of the software as a service (SaaS) or utility computing model.

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  1. Searching for the next big thing in Business Intelligence — Infotech Reflections on April 18th, 2008 8:33 am

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