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Farewall to PaaS Provider, Coghead


Coghead announced it was shutting it doors yesterday evening. For those unfamiliar with Coghead, it was a much talked about PaaS offering that offered an online application editor for rapid application development. They fell under the category of non-standard stack, a “4th generation language and runtime” (4GL) if you will. It seems that slow adoption coupled with the […]

What PaaS Isn’t: An Application with an API


For some time, I thought I was alone in battling the cloud taxonomy war. With SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, RIA, etc. being tossed around on a regular basis, I often find myself looking for clarification when it becomes obvious that someone’s definition and understanding of one of these acronyms is different than mine and those that […]