“many of us see them as more of a patron who are giving us the tools to deploy application without having to concern ourselves with many details”

Having made the switch from Desktop software / imap to Google Apps for domain, I’m pretty excited to outsource my deployment woes to Google.

Remember when everyone was scared about Google placing ads based on the content of their emails? Gmail alleviated so many headaches that we stopped caring about our initial gripes.

I think appengine will have a similar adoption rate, but I plan to be on the forefront of it, cutting my costs and increasing my bottom line by using their awesome deployment / scaling service.