Right when I was wondering how come we don’t hear anything from Google and App Engine, here comes the announcement. App Engine applications will be able to access enterprise data and services via the Force.com API. 

I was talking in a previous post about new cloud mashups, and it looks like they are already here, in full force. With this new move, although not so obvious, Google is hiding behind the cloud, and I believe it really shows the long term strategy is taking: if you go to war with Microsoft and Amazon, let others fight for you!

The new Force.com for Google App Engine lets developers create applications that span both salesforce.com and Google’s cloud computing platforms, and take advantage of the key features of both.

So what is Force.com for Google App Engine?

A Python library that lets you access the Force.com Web services API from within Google App Engine applications. Once it is installed in your Google App Engine application, the application can start to make callouts to the Force.com Web services API.  Continue reading…

Sriram Krishnan, Azure Program Manager at Microsoft, published a Python wrapper on top of the Azure Storage APIs. The code is hosted on Github here.

Slowly but surely, Microsoft is releasing to open-source community lots of free code, in order to promote their new services. Not too long ago, the SQL Services team released a Ruby library for accessing the SQL Services. The code is also hosted on Github.