Coghead Makes Do-It-Yourself Application Development Free for Students and Teachers

REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - April 2, 2008) - Coghead (http://www.coghead.com) today announced the Coghead Academic Program, which provides teachers and students free access to the Coghead do-it-yourself web application development platform. The platform, currently used by more than 25,000 businesses and individuals, lets business users, entrepreneurs and others develop rich internet applications without writing code. Through the Coghead Academic Program, Coghead will provide educators and students with a hands-on experience with collaborative technologies.

Guillermo Asper, professor of information systems at University of Brasilia and visiting scholar at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, is using Coghead in his classroom to provide a basic understanding of database development and teach students how to develop business information system applications. Students will also use Coghead to develop a custom CRM customer service application and a Digital Library management application for the Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, an event that is sponsored by USC.

"Coghead is the perfect platform to provide our business and technology students with hands-on experience with the Web 2.0 and collaboration technologies they'll need to use in the business world. At the same time, it serves a very practical purpose by enabling students to quickly and easily do prototyping and create applications that help them complete coursework and assignments," said Asper.

Academic Program Details

The Coghead Academic Program accelerates the adoption of rich internet applications by providing students and faculty with the opportunity to collaborate, build and share applications built on the Coghead platform. For non-commercial educational purposes, the program is available to any accredited high school, college, technical institution or university, and it includes:

--  Free Coghead accounts for academic instruction
--  Access to the Coghead platform for faculty use as part of a teaching
    curriculum or for student use for coursework
--  A complete, inexpensive solution to keep academic labs, faculty and
    students on the leading edge of technology
--  Opportunity to participate in Coghead User Groups, seminars and other
    industry events
    

"The Coghead Academic Program provides a complete and inexpensive way for academic labs, faculty and students to stay on the leading edge of application development," said Paul McNamara, Coghead's CEO. "Students who might otherwise sit passively in a classroom and simply be lectured to can now roll up their sleeves and create applications that can transform the way they think about the adaptability of computer technology to the business world."

For more information, go to http://www.coghead.com/academic.

About Coghead

Coghead provides a radically new way for tech-savvy businesspeople to create, manage, and deploy their own web-based applications. The Coghead service enables the users closest to a business challenge to create customized solutions in hours or days at a fraction of the cost of large packaged applications or custom development projects. Founded in May 2003 and funded by American Capital, El Dorado Ventures, and SAP, Coghead is staffed by industry veterans, serial entrepreneurs, and some of the brightest minds in software. For more information, visit the company's web site at http://www.coghead.com and the company's blog at http://blog.coghead.com/.