> "pretty open" "as long as you sign an NDA" is borderline oxymoronic. > "enterprise focused" speaks for itself. GAE is a business and has a niche. Perhaps the

> "pretty open" "as long as you sign an NDA" is borderline oxymoronic. > "enterprise focused" speaks for itself. GAE is a business and has a niche. Perhaps they'd really be dead if they didn't focus on a set of paying customers. NDAs are the norm for enterprise and are reasonable given that they want to maintain their niche. It's less reasonable for me to comment on their development/deployment methodology since I don't work at Google, but multiple quarters of work doesn't seem unusual for getting products like these deployed across multiple global data centers and achieve the kind of reliability required by these customers.