Monday, September 07, 2009

Google App Engine – Can it replace Microsoft share Point?

It was fun reading the article at http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/09/app-engine-sdk-125-released-for-python.html

Google app engine is now supported over windows as well. here are my observations -

1. Go to world with your web application within minuets. Could not find any Microsoft product / service in competition to this. 

2. Use Goggle’s Infrastructure to host, bandwidth and CPU time upto 5 million users per months for FREE!!!

3. Pay as you use after that.

4. Extensive integration with Eclipse and one click deployments.

5. Super cool UI with Google analytics and dashboard and I was feeling like I am in datacenter with my laptop.

6. Here is the Kicker – User JDO (Java data objects) and Google Authentication to use authenticate your users.

7. URL mapping off-course. Users wont even know that your www.xyz.com is hosted on Google servers.

I was thinking if any one can use the templated Servlet to create a team site like in sharepoint, then there is no licensing, now no more deployments and developmet and UI? is just like you any web development. On top of that you can convert the old apps as Google app engine app and host it on Google.

Is this a Google’s answer to sharepoint and Microsoft Cloud computing?

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