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That's why Google increased the price of GAE [0], so it would be profitable [1], which allows them to provide an SLA[2] that I can live with. Even deprecated GA

That's why Google increased the price of GAE [0], so it would be profitable [1], which allows them to provide an SLA[2] that I can live with. Even deprecated GAE features work for at least a year before they're terminated [3]. [0] https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=gae+price+increase https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=gae+price+increase [1] http://gigaom.com/2011/09/07/whats-better-pricier-google-app-engine-or-nothing/ http://gigaom.com/2011/09/07/whats-better-pricier-google-app... [2] https://developers.google.com/appengine/sla https://developers.google.com/appengine/sla [3] http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/04/app-engine-and-googles-new-deprecation.html http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/04/app-engine-and-g...

codemac 14y ago
Also, because I was curious if this deprecation policy was included cancellation of the entire service, yes it does: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 7.2 Deprecation Policy. Google will announce if we intend to discontinue or make backwards incompatible changes to this API or Service. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate that Service without these changes until the later of: (i) one year after the announcement or (ii) April 20, 2015, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment): - required by law or third party relationship (including if there is a change in applicable law or relationship), or - doing so could create a security risk or substantial economic or material technical burden. This Deprecation Policy doesn't apply to versions, features, and functionality labeled as "experimental." --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- So you have until 2015, or a year from the current date if that's less than a year away. I'd say that's a very reasonable amount of warning.
- taligent 14y ago
  > We will use commercially reasonable efforts. That sounds pretty damn ominous to me.
  - zwily 14y ago
    That's a pretty standard piece of legalese you'll see in most service agreements.
  - Benferhat 14y ago
    "Interpretation against the party that supplied the term Where, after the interpretation of a contract term that has been supplied by one party, doubts remain as to the meaning of that term, an interpretation against that party is to be preferred ("contra proferentem")." [0] http://www.trans-lex.org/926000 http://www.trans-lex.org/926000
- cskau 14y ago
  --✁-- Unicode's got you covered ✂ ✄ --✃--
  - codemac 14y ago
    Ooooh. Now to get my message mode to recognize and highlight those as well in Emacs.

codemac 14y ago

Also, because I was curious if this deprecation policy was included cancellation of the entire service, yes it does: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 7.2 Deprecation Policy. Google will announce if we intend to discontinue or make backwards incompatible changes to this API or Service. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate that Service without these changes until the later of: (i) one year after the announcement or (ii) April 20, 2015, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment): - required by law or third party relationship (including if there is a change in applicable law or relationship), or - doing so could create a security risk or substantial economic or material technical burden. This Deprecation Policy doesn't apply to versions, features, and functionality labeled as "experimental." --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- So you have until 2015, or a year from the current date if that's less than a year away. I'd say that's a very reasonable amount of warning.

taligent 14y ago
> We will use commercially reasonable efforts. That sounds pretty damn ominous to me.
- zwily 14y ago
  That's a pretty standard piece of legalese you'll see in most service agreements.
- Benferhat 14y ago
  "Interpretation against the party that supplied the term Where, after the interpretation of a contract term that has been supplied by one party, doubts remain as to the meaning of that term, an interpretation against that party is to be preferred ("contra proferentem")." [0] http://www.trans-lex.org/926000 http://www.trans-lex.org/926000
cskau 14y ago
--✁-- Unicode's got you covered ✂ ✄ --✃--
- codemac 14y ago
  Ooooh. Now to get my message mode to recognize and highlight those as well in Emacs.