Comments on: Head in the Cloud http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/106 Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:14:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: sharps http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/106/comment-page-1#comment-126 sharps Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:16:38 +0000 http://blog.softwhere.org/?p=106#comment-126 Thanks for the comment Paul. Just to be clear - I think CogHead rocks - I played a little on the original beta prog. I'd really like to think that what you're pioneering is the future of app. development for the web - I've been looking for someone to give people a reason to stop churning out code. Coghead comes close IMO. Being Open has many meanings - in this context I was really focussing on the price of entry (and exit). No matter how open your platform is - the probability of sucessfuly moving a CogHead application to another environment is, right now about zero (correct me if I'm wrong). As long as CogHead provides value above the competition - few will care; but history has taught us to be catious. Thanks for the comment Paul. Just to be clear - I think CogHead rocks - I played a little on the original beta prog. I’d really like to think that what you’re pioneering is the future of app. development for the web - I’ve been looking for someone to give people a reason to stop churning out code. Coghead comes close IMO.

Being Open has many meanings - in this context I was really focussing on the price of entry (and exit). No matter how open your platform is - the probability of sucessfuly moving a CogHead application to another environment is, right now about zero (correct me if I’m wrong). As long as CogHead provides value above the competition - few will care; but history has taught us to be catious.

]]> By: Paul McNamara http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/106/comment-page-1#comment-125 Paul McNamara Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:50:08 +0000 http://blog.softwhere.org/?p=106#comment-125 Rich, I was fortunate to be one of the original guys at Red Hat where we pioneered the open source business model. We demonstrated that being "open" accelerates adoption and innovation and that translates into business benefits. When I came to Coghead, I wanted to infuse our model with the benefits of "open" while also giving people the maximum in convenience and agility. At times, these things might seem in conflict, but by bringing some innovative thinking to bear, I think we can be both open and convenient. Our Open Definition model is but one example. We have also published our APIs, and we plan to open our widget interface and our integration framework to allow third parties complete access. We also make it really easy for someone to export their data and we auto-generate a web services interface for every application that is created on Coghead. Paul McNamara CEO, Coghead Rich, I was fortunate to be one of the original guys at Red Hat where we pioneered the open source business model. We demonstrated that being “open” accelerates adoption and innovation and that translates into business benefits. When I came to Coghead, I wanted to infuse our model with the benefits of “open” while also giving people the maximum in convenience and agility. At times, these things might seem in conflict, but by bringing some innovative thinking to bear, I think we can be both open and convenient.

Our Open Definition model is but one example. We have also published our APIs, and we plan to open our widget interface and our integration framework to allow third parties complete access. We also make it really easy for someone to export their data and we auto-generate a web services interface for every application that is created on Coghead.

Paul McNamara
CEO, Coghead

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