On: Switched away from App Engine, couldn't be happier

[rbanffy]

> The lockin is not worth the benefits, though you will certainly find lots of happy GAE customers.

> My company, with a real GAE app, has a cost threshold where we know it's cost effective to move from GAE

These guys may help: http://www.appscale.com/

[pekk → rbanffy]

If you can afford that deployment, otherwise you have to rewrite most of your code to get off the platform

[rbanffy → pekk]

I don't think the cost of deployment is that relevant when compared to the cost (and risks) of a rewrite.

If your app is written in Java, I believe http://www.jboss.org/capedwarf is another option.