“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. 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.”

- Paul McNamara, CEO Coghead

COGHEAD MAKES DO-IT-YOURSELF APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
FREE FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

Coghead Academic Program Lets Faculty and Students Develop Applications
for Coursework

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – April 2, 2008 - Coghead today announced the Coghead Academic Program to provide free access for teachers and students 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 with the Coghead platform. The program is available to any accredited high school, college, technical institution, or university for non-commercial educational purposes, and includes:

• Free Coghead accounts for academic instruction
• Access to the Coghead platform for faculty use as part of their 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 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.”