Krishnan, I have installed Zoho Creator on my Joomla website using the wrapper module. Is there a way to install the codes on Joomla similar to using the app engine? Thanks
Disclaimer: Zoho is the sponsor of this blog but this is my independent personal opinion. I had access to the same documents that were provided to other bloggers.
Today, Zoho made a major announcement about the integration between Zoho
Creator and Google App Engine. Now, one can create an app on Zoho Creator and deploy it on Google App Engine. 
In short, Zoho Creator acts as an IDE for Google App
Engine. With this announcement, the barrier to entry for Google App Engine has
been brought down considerably. Anyone, who knows how to drag and drop,
can deploy an app on Google App Engine.
Sometime back Sridhar, CEO of Zoho, talked about the theoretical possibility of taking apps from Zoho Creator and deploying it on Amazon Web Services with Google App Engine as a middleware. He visualized a continuum between these three services. Already, Chris Anderson ported Google App Engine to Amazon EC2 and released it as Open Source. With the release of this feature, Zoho has ensured that Sridhar’s vision of continuum has turned into a reality.
Anyone can create their own app on Zoho creator and deploy it at Google App Engine or they can just pick up an app (for free or for a small price) from Zoho Marketplace and, then, deploy it on Google App Engine. Usually it doesn’t make any sense to take an app from Zoho Marketplace and to deploy it on App Engine as it is totally redundant. However, businesses can use this option and implement the domain based authentication offered by Google App Engine for the apps. This way, businesses can have exclusive access to the app and data from inside their own domain, a feature that was not available in the Zoho Creator Application (someone please correct me if I am wrong on this assertion).
For me, this is interesting from another angle. I am an unabashed Open Source evangelist in the desktop world. Even though the source code is important in the SaaS world, one can’t do much with the code if they don’t have the necessary computing and storage resources to run the application. People, who believed strongly in Open Source, had to look beyond the source code in the SaaS world. We need to worry about open protocols, open formats, open architecture, etc.. Data Portability and Interoperability, then, becomes very important in the SaaS world. In fact, I will say that Data Portability and Interoperability are two of the necessary factors for the very success of the SaaS itself. With this realization, vendors are moving towards creating an interoperability between their SaaS applications. In some cases, SaaS vendors are working directly with others to offer interoperability. Salesforce’s recent integration with Google App Engine is an example of this kind of approach. There are also third party integration tools available to help establish interoperability between platforms of different vendors.
With the CloudSQL release last month, Zoho took the necessary step towards Data Portability. With this move, Zoho is taking the step towards establishing Interoperability with other vendors. Well, they are already working with Google and Yahoo on authentication side but this is a very significant move by itself. It is pretty clear that Zoho is taking the necessary steps to establish themselves as a major player in the years to come.
Check out this video by Raju Vegesna, Evangelist at Zoho, where he explains the deployment process from Zoho Creator to Google App Engine.
Right now, once the app is created on Zoho Creator, users can download the Python code and then deploy it on Google App Engine. According to Raju, Zoho has a working code where one can easily deploy the apps on App Engine directly from Zoho Creator. They are now working with Google to make this possible within the terms and conditions of Google App Engine. He also assured me that Zoho Creator will allow users to download the app code in other scripting languages as and when Google starts supporting them in their platform. He explained that it is possible because apps created on Zoho Creator are saved as Deluge code at the backend and Deluge is designed in such a way that the entire code is modeled in a database.
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Krishnan, I have installed Zoho Creator on my Joomla website using the wrapper module. Is there a way to install the codes on Joomla similar to using the app engine? Thanks
Ranjan, Technically, it should be possible. Whether Zoho have any plans for it, you should ask them. I am not part of Zoho team.
[..] opina que el motivo es porque Google genera más confianza a la hora de tener tus aplicaciones y datos en manos de un proveedor. Pienso que si asi fuera, Zoho se estaría echando piedras sobre su propio tejado. EnCloudAve opinan que Zoho no ofrece servicio de compra de dominio y Google si, y además defiende de alguna forma la explicación que expongo más arriba. [..]
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