Developers who adopt the Google App Engine for their cloud computing platform today may fear data lock-in, since the only way to import or export data is using a Python-based API. Google is working on a tool to improve data exchange to improve data portability. The Google App Engine is intended to help developers build and scale applications to run on Google’s infrastructure, says Peter Koomen, Google’s product manager for App Engine. “It’s still difficult to build Web apps,” he notes.
Google App Engine: Getting Data Out Ain’t Simple. Yet.
September 4, 2008