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Coghead passes on

Posted by Stuart Lauchlan in Applications on Thu, 26/02/2009 - 20:41


Critics of SaaS sometimes play the FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) card of asking what happens if your SaaS provider goes bust? Do you lose your applications, your service, your data?  Well, we're about to see what happens in this sort of situation following the collapse of Coghead, a Cloud vendor whose passing might also raise questions about the Platform as a Service (PaaS) concept.

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