[enraged_camel]

>>Firebase isn't going anywhere.

If experience has taught us anything, it's that it's pretty naive to say this about anything owned by Google. I mean, things like Google Wave and Google Buzz were huge initiatives at one point too.

[mbleigh]

Is it possible things will change? Of course. I was just trying to illustrate that, unlike Parse and Facebook, Firebase has a clear relationship with core Google businesses.

We will never be able to fully dispell these worries, but I think there's pretty strong evidence in support of Firebase's prospects. Our developers will have to judge if the value we deliver is higher than the small-but-non-zero chance of it going away.

I certainly think it is, but I'm pretty biased. :)

[kaishiro]

So, I see this argument over and over again with re: to Google, but what I've never seen is Google closing shop on anything in their GCE offering. This certainly doesn't mean it's not possible, but I'm not sure comparing the discontinuation of one-off products to any of the GCE offerings is fair.

It's absolutely possible I'm being naive here - just one person's take on the situation.

[victorhooi]

The two examples you have aren't really comparable.

In the case of Google Wave, this was an experimental new way of communicating. I remember it being cool and exciting at the time, but I definitely didn't get the impression it was a commercial product. And afterwards they ended up open-sourcing the whole thing as an Apache project.

Google Buzz was a little less experimental, but as another poster mentioned, it was a free consumer product and second it ended up being superseded by Google+.

[CobrastanJorji]

Most of the canceled Google products have been free, consumer-facing, chat apps. Have they canceled any cloud products? App Engine's been around for like a decade now.