Google Plays the Platform Game @ OPEN WEB DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL

Monday evening, at a gathering called Campfire One, Google unveiled App Engine, a hosted web application platform that offers web developers free use of Google's mighty infrastructure and all the building blocks that Google uses for its own applications. Amusingly, it's as vendor lock-in and importable as anything Microsoft in its heyday ever dreamed up. That, however, didn't stop Google from immediately filling the 10,000 spaces it made available for App Engine's initial beta.

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	Wal-Mart To Sell $399 Ubuntu Linux-based Laptop with Google Operating System By James Hamilton anonymous coward wrote: For those wondering that's a system76 computer in the picture.
	Early Notes on GoogleApps By Dave Winer Google News Desk wrote: Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I'm not kidding. It's even better than I hoped. Yes, it's only Python, but IBM's PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn't matter. Yeah, I preferred C, but I coded in Pascal be...
	Tracking RIAs with Google Analytics and Unica NetInsight By Judah Phillips Georges wrote: Interresting article. Where do you enable "events" in Google Analytics? http://code.go ogle.com/apis/analytics/d ocs/eventTrackerOverview. html says it's only available to Beta participants.
	ASF Grants Synapse Separate, Top-Level Project Billing By Alex Fletcher Bobbi wrote: I found FAQ on this topic at the Servicemix web site to be pretty accurant about the differences between them (http://servicemix.apache .org/how-does-servicemix- compare-to-synapse.html). Only thing is Syanpse developers call it a ESB, I'm not sure if it really is (sq...
	DreamSpark Is Very, Very, Very Un-Microsoft-Like! By Kevin Hoffman DreamSpark News Desk wrote: It appears as though University and high school students will, at some point (I don't know the hardcore details) be able to receive free copies of Visual Studio, SQL server, and other development servers and enterprise servers.

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