SAP Buys PaaS Vendor's Intellectual Property
SAP has purchased the intellectual-property rights of PaaS (platform as a service) vendor Coghead, and for now will use it only as an internal tool, according to an SAP spokeswoman. Terms were not disclosed.
Coghead recently told customers it planned to shut down its service due to economic factors, but did not mention the SAP deal in its announcement.
SAP will reveal more about how it plans to use the technology in coming weeks, but has no current intentions to sell it as a commercial service, according to the spokeswoman. The company is "working to help Coghead customers transition to new service providers without interruption."
Coghead's platform provides a visual editing environment, workflow and integration tools and a database, along with underlying infrastructure through Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. It is one of a wide range of PaaS offerings from the likes of Salesforce.com, Google and Microsoft, as well as smaller players such as Caspio.
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