Google App Engine = Ugh
Okay, they did it.
Did they do it just to try and steal the momentum of .NET?
Surely we are not to believe that Google is in business to be beneficent purveyors of independence.
Coming soon: a million applications with AdWords. A totally skewed and manipulated (bought and paid for) Search Engine System / Office Suite / Advertising Engine / Time Tracker and Invoicer.
And you thought pop-up windows were annoying… wait until your stock portfolio management software starts recommending Viagra to you.
Avoid this! First they want all the dark fiber and now they want your applications. It sounds like a conspiracy to me, but I am very wary of freebies that preclude innovation and simultaneously leverage business interest over innovation itself.
Think Service Oriented Architecture, the MIT/GNU license, Open Source, Semantic Web… but please don’t build your apps on Google. It would be a mistake, and not in the best interest of humankind.
Yikes.
J