Google App Engine - First impressions * It is free, but with quotas. The business model is probably to get others to build apps so that Google can get users, searchable data & then eventually offer a business edition. * You don't have to worry about hosting, load balancing & scaling which is indeed huge since writing the web application is the easiest among all of the above. * The initial release is not ready for business apps, it doesn't have an SLA nor does it have a good support for authentication & authorization. * You need to learn Python if you haven't already, but future support for ruby or php could be expected soon. * There are no issues in hosting flash or flex application except for the login to google account issue. * Python frameworks like Django are natively supported, but you can use your own framework as well. * It is possible to do GQL queries and Google full text search support. * And there is the full offline sdk for those who can't get an...
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