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Re:Time Till Open Source Alternative by seanhunter on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:55AM (#32626375)
This "well over a decade" claim needs some qualification. GCP only became gevnerally available in Nov 2011. Before that, there was App Engine and Cloud Storage, but not GCP.
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Re:Time Till Open Source Alternative by latchkey on Sunday August 28, 2022 @12:32PM (#32629674)
I jumped onto AppEngine as soon as I saw it announced (probably here on HN). Probably sometime around late 2009.

Quickly convinced my friend Jeff to get onto it... we saw a need for a datastore wrapper and he (and I a tiny bit) wrote Objectify, which is one of the most widely used tools for AppEngine out there.

Look at the license.txt... Feb 6, 2010, 13 years old...

https://github.com/objectify/objectify

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Re:Time Till Open Source Alternative by antaviana on Sunday August 28, 2022 @05:48AM (#32627053)
Do you mean they should have said instead "within 9 months after GCP became generally available" to be more precise in their statement?
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