Google App Engine Blog: Introducing Google App Engine + our new blog

Google recent released a new application engine which runs "in the cloud." I tried to sign up, but the 10,000 spaces were taken up faster than my tiny fingers could type.

This is a major step forward for making scalable application infrastructure something handled by the likes of Google and Amazon and not by Dell consultants or your IT folk: the so-called Red Shift that someone saw coming.

My advice is twofold:

• If you're investing heavily in virtualization for new projects or an attempt to scale existing one, seriously reconsider and explore these new options.


• Invest in Sun, Amazon, and Google. Not VMWare or Microsoft.

There's good potential here.