Someone should build a website to maintain all the projects Google killed. They might not be suitable to Google but someone else could build on the ideas.
I'm sure it varies by project, but as has been said before when Google kills things, a lot of their projects require the core Google infrastructure (BigTable?) that isn't open sourced so it isn't possible to spin the project out.
I wonder if I'm the only one who thinks that Google could make a lot more money, and have a lot more impact, if they opened up the "core Google infrastructure" for [paid] uses by outsiders than Google AppEngine is ever going to get them.
App engine at this point is pretty much all their infrastucture opened up - you got short/long running processes, big table, blobstore, and map reduce. You don't get c or assembly but you get golang which is pretty close.
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Someone should build a website to maintain all the projects Google killed. They might not be suitable to Google but someone else could build on the ideas.
I'm sure it varies by project, but as has been said before when Google kills things, a lot of their projects require the core Google infrastructure (BigTable?) that isn't open sourced so it isn't possible to spin the project out.
I wonder if I'm the only one who thinks that Google could make a lot more money, and have a lot more impact, if they opened up the "core Google infrastructure" for [paid] uses by outsiders than Google AppEngine is ever going to get them.
App engine at this point is pretty much all their infrastucture opened up - you got short/long running processes, big table, blobstore, and map reduce. You don't get c or assembly but you get golang which is pretty close.