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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>labs@laan blog - Latest Comments in Google – our gentle giant?</title><link>http://labslaanblog.disqus.com/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:53:20 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Google – our gentle giant?</title><link>http://labs.laan.com/blog/2008/05/google-%e2%80%93-our-gentle-giant/#comment-4527852</link><description>I definitely fall into this camp:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"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"&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Having made the switch from Desktop software / imap to Google Apps for domain, I'm pretty excited to outsource my deployment woes to Google.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Kortina</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:53:20 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>