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Coghead Roundup: A Collection of Analysis
A curated roundup of post-mortem writing on the demise of Coghead and what it revealed about PaaS standards, interoperability, vendor stability, and platform selection.
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The death of Coghead triggered a flood of analysis — just about everyone had an opinion on the event, myself included. After the initial wave of shock and disbelief, a steady stream of insightful post-mortem analysis began to make its way to my NewsGator account. Now that we had almost ten days to come to terms with both the events that led to Coghead’s demise and the implications for SaaS and PaaS moving forward, this roundup presents posts that highlight the key issues that emerged from the discussion: lack of PaaS standards and interoperability (exacerbated by the uncertainty of long-term vendor stability), and PaaS evaluation and selection criteria confusion (including the immaturity of monetization strategies and pricing models).
PaaS Standards and Interoperability Analysis
- Phil Wainewright: Coghead’s demise highlights PaaS lock-out risk
- Bob Warfield: Coghead Shuttered: Another in a Long Line of Non-Developer Developer Tools
- Sinclair Schuller: Farewell to PaaS Provider, Coghead
- Phil Wainewright: Does PaaS Need Migration Standards or Standard Platforms?
- Jonathan Sapir: The future of situational application platforms like Coghead
- Fredric Paul: The Demise Of Coghead: Collateral Damage When The Cloud Goes Poof
- Eugenio Pace: The need for “standards for application logic” in PaaS. Really?
- Scott Wilson: Rapid web-based app development: good or evil?
PaaS Evaluation and Selection Criteria Analysis
- Jonathan Sapir: Coghead refugees and Dr. Seuss’s Old Hat
- Jane McCarty: Helping Coghead customers
- Oliver Marks: Cloud Bursts as Coghead Calls It Quits
- Rafe Needleman: Coghead refugees to Intuit or Caspio? Fat chance
- Dennis Howlett: PaaS risks
- Krishnan Subramanian: PaaS, Trusting Beyond Its Initial Hype
- Phil Wainewright: Automated PaaS migration now a reality
- John Foley: A Cloud User Switches Clouds
- Fredric Paul: PaaS Vendors Swarm Former Coghead Customers
- Mary Hayes Weier: Coghead Failure Highlights Risks Of Cloud Computing
- Jonathan Sapir: PaaS Pricing…again
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