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People talk about Vendor Lockin with Microsoft, but there are lots of links to AppEngine tools and services, so I'm wondering what is the difference? Why is Ve
by pj 18y ago
People talk about Vendor Lockin with Microsoft, but there are lots of links to AppEngine tools and services, so I'm wondering what is the difference?
Why is Vendor Lock-in okay with Google's proprietary platform, but not with Microsoft's?
- olegp 18y agoPerhaps because they rely on a lot of open source components and open up some of their technologies whereas Microsoft has been slow at coming around to the OS way of thinking. If you're worried about lock-in with App Engine, check this out: http://code.google.com/p/appscale/ http://code.google.com/p/appscale/ As you can see, Google is one of the supporters of this project, although it's not clear exactly what they have contributed.
- seldo 18y agoDeploying onto the JVM is hardly vendor lock-in; there are no shortage of Java servers around, from a variety of vendors. Obviously the specifics of deploying to App Engine are going to be vendor-specific, but the core of your code should be pretty portable.