Force.com (the developer site for Salesforce.com) is now offering a Python library and test harness allowing developers to access the Force.com Web Services from Google App Engine applications.  According to details on the company’s official blog:

Once it is installed in your Google App Engine application, that application can start to seamless make callouts to the Force.com Web services API. This API lets you query and manipulate data in your Force.com environment – effectively letting you tap into the Force.com platform from within the application.

This is an interesting partnership between Salesforce.com and Google, especially considering that Google’s App Engine is still in preview release, and according to a report last week from Pingdom, Google App’s SLA definition allows it to be down up to 21 hours out of the week, but still claim 99.9% uptime.

Nonetheless, it could prove to be a cost effective way to build small applications that leverage Salesforce.com.

After all, in today’s economy: cheap (free) scale is king, and downtime is acceptable.

Filed under: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Web, Google