Guido leaving App Engine team (and Google)

[pdknsk]

Hopefully this isn't a bad sign for App Engine.

https://tech.dropbox.com/2012/12/welcome-guido/

[Guido van Rossum]

Hey, I'm still here! :-)

App Engine is a great product and we are parting as the best of friends. The APp Engine team has a ton of Python talent on board and I am sure they will do a great job carrying the torch. (And occasionally they will be able to do things that I would not have approved of, cranky old man that I am. :-)

--Guido

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:12 AM, pdknsk <pdk...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hopefully this isn't a bad sign for App Engine.

https://tech.dropbox.com/2012/12/welcome-guido/

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[Kaan Soral]

:(

[Shilendra Sharma]

:( :( :(

Shilendra

Thanks,
Shilendra

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Kaan Soral <kaan...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Jay]

Congratulations Guido.

I know all things change as they mature and grow. I have to admit feeling just a bit of concern about the app engine product though. I'm sure they have a great team in place. However, Nick leaves earlier this year, I think Ikai went to another group in Google, and now Guido.
I think the App Engine platform is fantastic and I want to see it continue and continue to grow. I hope that these three moving on is more a sign of just looking for a change rather than something else.

[coto]

First at all Congratulations, thanks for your contribution and very good luck Guido.

We have to be honest, it is a big kick to the google app engine project because it is not the PaaS most used by developers yet.

One year ago Yukihiro Matsumoto was hired by Heroku and if Engine Yard had hired Matz, certainly the good numbers (developers' quantity) had been better for Engine Yard.

I am sure that in the past a lot of developers moved to App Engine with Python because it had the support of the creator of that language and of course a Big company too, call it "Commercial excuse for choose a platform". These excuses exist and people who take decision in companies use them.

Google now has to move the pieces smartly by finding a new marketing strategy and in this case Google Ads doesn't work, because in this kind of products where the number of users (Developers in this case) is very important and there are not many excuses for use it now, only that is a product supported by a big Company (Google) but Heroku, Azure, Engine Yard and other could have more reasons and they will take advantage of this.

Don't get me wrong, Guido made a gorgeous contribution to App Engine but he is also a marketing reason to attract developers, in spite of there are a ton of Python talent in App Engine team.

I am still a fan of App Engine (reason because I built one of the most used App Engine Boilerplate) and I hope this PaaS grow much more, hat off to Guido.

- Coto