Fynspire

Google is moving into the development cycle
http://code.google.com/appengine/

So, they aren't doing anything special here. However, because they are Google they are getting a lot of attention. The only advantage to using Google's App Engine is that you can scale easily. Which is normally a pretty big problem for some small startups or facebook applications.

I did like watching Bret write a python app. Even though I cringed when I saw Bret write raw sql statements in the demo.

I will be excited when they support more languages and get all the bugs worked out.

Right now it looks like a bunch of Capistrano recipes.