Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone

Re:Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone by codonaut on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @05:55PM (#6518080)

They do have a history of that, but AppEngine has a huge footprint right now, and Google is only expanding it's cloud platform with Compute Engine, redoing UI, etc. They're clearly investing a lot here, I don't think they'll close this as easily as Google Checkout or others

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Re:Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone by benatkin on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @06:12PM (#6518176)

I thought Google Reader was too big to be shut down too. It had a small % of all users but a large % of power users.

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Re:Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone by yeukhon on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @10:23PM (#6519095)

Free services are not guarnateed to remain open. Paid services can continue to live for a long time until market share shrinks so low. GAE can't. It has a deep root in the market.

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Re:Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone by ryan-allen on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @05:59PM (#6518098)

I supposed, but would you risk your business by locking yourself in to their platform?

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Re:Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone by zafirk on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @06:04PM (#6518126)

Peter Magnusson from the App Engine team recently wrote about the lock-in argument: http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/25/google-app-engine-lock-in-...

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Re:Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone by j_s on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @06:33PM (#6518282)

I recently discovered this project as a replacement if you're using Java on App Engine:

http://www.jboss.org/capedwarf

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Re:Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone by kodablah on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @06:42PM (#6518329)

There is also https://github.com/AppScale/appscale

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