November 18, 2009, 2:52 pm
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if Google offers the world a web service, large numbers of people will convince themselves that it’s superior to anything else they can get their hands on – and less likely to condemn them to some sort of Redmondian future in which a single corporation has them in a metaphorical vice grip.
So it is with Google App Engine, the 18-month-old service that lets outside developers build and run web apps on the company’s very own distributed infrastructure. According to the market research types at Evans Data, developers everywhere are convinced that App Engine will overtake Amazon in the race into the so-called public cloud. They’ve even decided that the Google cloud is their best bet for avoiding the dreaded “vendor lock-in…”
