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Google Previews App Engine

Posted by Zonk on from the what's-not-to-like dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google is giving a handful of web programmers the opportunity to create and run their own Web applications on their servers. Today's launch of a preview release of Google App Engine signals a new era of collaboration with third-party software developers. 'The goal is to make it easy to get started with a new Web app, and then make it easy to scale when that app reaches the point where it's receiving significant traffic and has millions of users," said Google product manager, Paul McDonald in a blog post."

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  1. New Acronym by AccUser · · Score: 3, Funny

    GAPE - Google App Engine

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    Any fool can talk, but it takes a wise man to listen.

    1. Re:New Acronym by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Google Open Application Terminal Serving Engine

  2. Re:Vendor Lockin by hanshotfirst · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not to be Captain Obvious here, but...

    [x] Limited Language Choices
    [x] Non-relational Database
    [x] Giant, Centralized Processing resource
    [x] Said resource shared with others

    Oh, Goody! Google just invented the Mainframe.
    Where do I sign up for my timeslice?

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    Why, oh why, didn't I take the Blue Pill?
  3. Would the last one to leave Web 1.0... by dstone · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...please turn off the L.A.M.P.?

    Thanks.