Google's been in the news a lot this week. They released their Google App Engine, which allows you to build apps on their servers, using their databases, for free. They're investigating a partnership with Yahoo regarding seach ads which will end up going nowhere for anti-trust reasons.

I'm a big fan of Google - I use Gmail, Google Reader, Google Calender, iGoogle - we use Google Groups for the discussions here at ScoreOS. I spent some time thinking about the Google App Engine and what it means to us here and the broader software market.

At first, I was afraid that we were missing an opportunity to jump on this wave but, in the end, I think we'll let this one go by. While I do think the App Engine is good, it does use Python, something we're not familiar with, and it does tie you in to a certain code set. Since we want to be flexible, that doesn't sound like a good fit. I may go ahead and use it for some of the stat pulls I do just to try it out.