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Yet they didn't support it for years and now they are. I only found it funny because within the HN ecosystem you get the impression that it's really dying (rightfully so given the better options out there). Now another platform provider is supporting it, which will only increase its popularity according to your statements.

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For many applications they require a CMS and PHP clearly owns the market space here with Wordpress and Drupal -- strategic in terms of driving growth and new business. We also believe that since App Engine was built with multitenancy in mind from day one that it's a more secure, hardened environment -- better for developers. Finally, and to my point above, the majority of the internet has been built with PHP whether folks like it or not. We want to bring the benefits of cloud to this large corpus of developers -- advancing computing rather than stagnating it.

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