Will Enterprises Have an App-etite for Google Apps?

August 20, 2010

Google’s App Engine recently got updated and, like every time they move a muscle, the search giant wants you to think it’s big news. The tweaks are nice, but it’s doubtful many will notice. Information Week briefly outlined the changes in an article, “Google App Engine Gets a Tune-Up.” According to the piece, “foremost among the changes is support for multi-tenant apps. Multi-tenancy means that applications can segregate data for different customers in a unique namespace, using the Namespaces API.” Information Week suggested that this bump in ease of access was actually patterned after Google’s successful photo site, Picasa.

While not earth-shaking news, this change should put the App Engine in a better position to do battle with the gaggle of competition in the cloud application platforms market, including Amazon Web Services, Heroku, Microsoft’s Windows Azure Platform, and Salesforce.com’s Force.com. Multi-tenancy means that the friendliness between Salesforce.com and Google may begin to cool.

Pat Roland, August 20, 2010

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, Enterprise, News, Technology

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