Google says it plans to open sign-ups for Google AppEngine -- an application hosting service for small- to medium-sized businesses -- to everyone, effective Wednesday.
Launched as a preview release in April, Google AppEngine was only available to the first 10,000 developers who signed up at the time. The company says it has a waiting list of more than 150,000 developers.
Google also says it plans to announce a new pricing plan, which will become effective later this year, after the AppEngine preview is over. Under the new plan, developers start with a free quota of 500MB and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million pageviews per month. After the free quota has been exhausted, Google will charge 10 cents to 12 cents per CPU core-hour; 15 cents to 18 cents per GB-month of storage; 11 cents to 13 cents per GB outgoing bandwidth; and 9 cents to 11 cents per GB incoming bandwidth.
The announcement is set to come out of Google's IO ("Innovating" in the "Open") conference for developers in San Francisco, which begins tomorrow and runs through Thursday. More than 2,900 developers are expected to attend the event, which consists of roughly 100 technical sessions about Google products.
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