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I'm impressed, and that doesn't happen so often.

The ruby and database lock-in need to go away - then you have a winner, hands down.

This is actually my only recommendation to you guys: Don't limit yourselves to being the AppEngine for rails. Open up a bit and you'll wipe the floor with RightScale & friends, too.

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From this architectural overview it looks like they're ready for it. Presumably a "dyno" could run anything that speaks http.

That would be fantastic. It would be so cool if you could launch a python, or even java dyno. I think most webapps could be structured to fit into this architecture, with the caveat of using ruby specific management tools such as rake.

I highly doubt they'll want to or be able to spend much time getting other "dyno"'s working until they've got a solid customer base with RoR. No reason to spread themselves too thin until they can demonstrate they can serve their customers well with what they already have.

That said, I do hope they eventually will.

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