Cloud Service comparison: Google App Engine vs. Joyent

According to the "Cloud Computing" entry in Wikipedia, it states that "Currently 25% of Facebook daily active application usage runs on Joyent."

Can anyone provide reasons why Facebook uses Joyent instead of, say, Google App Engine?

Also, in more general terms, can anyone provide examples where Joyent would be better than Google App Engine, or vice-versa?

Superficially, it appears the main difference, from a developers point of view, is that Joyent offers wider language support than Google's App Engine (python only).

Thank you very much,

--Michael
Miami, FL


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