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Any small team of developers can deploy a successful web application with no system administrators and no VP of operations. GAE takes away all the complexity of databases, replication, redundancy, monitoring.
For my last project (http://www.btexty.com , an open mobile messaging platform), we switched to Python and GAE, moving away from a Ruby On Rails setup on dedicated hosting, that we used from a previous project (http://www.moqpon.com mobile coupons).
I'm very happy with that decision. For a duo of developers, forgetting about the hosting platform allows to focus on product development and dramatically increases productivity.