Zoho Dec. 16 said applications created with its Zoho Creator Web database application tool will now run on Google App Engine, the latest bridge between software-as-a-service providers forging interoperability between their cloud computing platforms.

Zoho Creator lets even casual users who are not necessarily programmers use drag-and-drop tools to create ad-hoc Web applications and add them to Web sites and blogs. More than 130,000 applications have been created with Zoho Creator. With the integration of App Engine, users have another platform on which to run their applications.

Opening up to work with other Web application platforms is important for AdventNet's Zoho and other software makers such as Google, which are looking to garner more support for their cloud computing suites. SAAS providers recognize the importance of fostering an open cloud ecosystem to lure users and programmers away from the traditional on-premises development environments and applications of Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and others.

Zoho Evangelist Raju Vegesna provided a video demonstration of the integration of Zoho Creator with Google App Engine. From start to finish, it took Vegesna roughly 6 minutes to launch a Creator application on App Engine. 

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