As a charter Coghead solution provider, it was a shock when we heard about the company’s failure to secure late round funding in November. While we have known this day was coming for a while, there was still some sadness when we received the email with the subject “Coghead service termination notification” this evening. Coghead was a visionary technology with a great team behind it, and we enjoyed working with everyone. Hopefully folks land on their feet and we can work together again soon.
R.I.P. Coghead:
Dear Valued Coghead Customer:
On behalf of the entire Coghead team, I would like to thank you for your
past business. We have taken pride in offering you our state-of-the-art
Platform-as-a-Service to support your development of software applications.
Regretfully, due to the impact of economic challenges, Coghead has
discontinued its operations.
Effective immediately, the Coghead service and the license agreement to
which customers agreed when they registered for the service are terminated.
However, existing customers will be able to access and use their
applications and data through my.coghead.com *until April 30, 2009 on an
unsupported, “as is” basis without any representations or warranties
(express or implied) or indemnity from Coghead or any other party. To use
the service during this period, customers must go to
http://my.coghead.com/api/util/serviceterms.jsp and accept the specified
terms of use listed. Effective immediately, all access and use of the
applications and data available through my.coghead.com shall be pursuant to
the terms listed at http://www.coghead.com/serviceterms.html.*
Customers should download their data that is available through
my.coghead.com before 3:00 p.m. Pacific time on April 30th. However,
Customers should not attempt to copy, modify, reproduce or reverse engineer
any portion of the software that is part of, or used in the delivery of, the
service. Customers will not be charged for their use of the service through
April 30th. In light of the foregoing, we strongly recommend that customers
limit their work on existing projects and refrain from initiating new
projects and application rollouts.
*Basic support inquiries can be submitted to support@coghead.com until 3:00
p.m. Pacific time on April 30, 2009.*
Thank you again for your past business and support.
Coghead
Coghead customers interested in migrating their Coghead apps to the Force.com platform can take advantage of emergency migration services by Delivered Innovation.
Dennis, does this mean that this Coghead platform is shutdown completely ? I run my business apps on this platform. Coghead mentioned that there is no charge through april 30th. How long do you think the platform will be available without any tech support.
It looks like the platform will only be available until April 30, at which time they’re going to take it offline. That gives customers a little over two months to migrate their apps. Anyone interested in porting business critical applications to Force.com should look into emergency migration services from Delivered Innovation.
http://www.deliveredinnovation.com/coghead-application-migration/coghead-migration-services.html
Obviously, Coghead has left their customers with no migration plan and its the users concern how to save the data. So, this is a brief overview of migration plans the main vendors offered to make at least a bit easier:
http://webappsatwork.blogspot.com/2009/02/helping-coghead-customers.html
Thank you for putting this together, Jane. It’s been a mad scramble to try and help match customer requirements with the appropriate platform, and since each PaaS provider has its own sweet spot, this has not been a simple proposition.