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Hey, that’s me in the IBM Systems Journal!

January 30th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Cloud Computing, Coghead

I was reading a recently published IBM Systems Journal paper called “Changing the corporate IT development model: Tapping the power of grassroots computing” on my flight from Chicago to the Vizthink Conference in San Fran this week (see my Mindmapping 2.0 blog), and came across a quote that sounded awfully familiar. There was a citation, so I went to the back of the document, and sure enough - a reference to a book I wrote back in 2003 called “Igniting the Phoenix: A New Vision for IT“! Glad to see it only took about 5 years for the book to become relevant :-).

The quote talked about the changing role of the IT department from solution developer to solution enabler. Cloud computing and tools like Coghead and our very own iBuild make this more and more a reality.

The IBM document concludes:

“CIOs have an important but challenging role to change the enterprise culture to one that encourages and embraces innovative thinking and individual self-sufficiency.”

Indeed!

Coghead 2.0 heralds the arrival of Long Tail Software 2.0

January 15th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Coghead, Long Tail Software

Long tail software got a major boost yesterday with the release of Coghead 2.0.

One of the biggest problems that non-techies have had building long tail solutions is dealing with things like scalability, backup, and reliability. By moving their tool to the Amazon Web Services infrastructure, Coghead has taken care of all that in one fell swoop.

In addition, by delivering its software through Amazon’s servers, Coghead is far more credible to developers and users who might otherwise have questioned the startup’s longevity.

Another set of issues that developers of long tail solutions typically have to deal with is eliminated by Coghead’s use of Adobe Flex. The first issue is the need for cross-platform support. Flex solves this by providing out-of-the-box support for all common Web browsers. The next issue is the creation of a polished user interface. Flex provides excellent look and feel, as well as great usability, with little additional effort. Another issue is offline application support, and this will provided later this year through Adobe’s AIR technology.

In all, Coghead 2.0 represents a giant leap forward in facilitating powerful long tail solutions.

UPDATE: Good article by Anne Zelenka on this:
Coghead on AWS: The SaaS Ecosystem Expands