The Hindu Business Line : With Dekoh, have your cake and eat it too!

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Bangalore March 5 Proud of that collection of music, videos and photos? Serve your desktop on the platter of Dekoh - a Web 2.0 platform designed on Java that will let you share your content and applications on the Web. As Prof S. Sadagopan, Director, IIIT-Bangalore says, "In the online world, you can have your cake and your friends can eat it too." Control is a keyword, with Dekoh offering many options of selectively allowing your family and friends to enter your zone.

Designed by US-based Pramati Technologies, Dekoh will be offered to the public in April. Right now, it is open to a select group of people, mostly developers in the US.

Dekoh allows Java specialists to develop applications. This hybrid application brings the desktop and the Web onto a single platform and can be used across operating systems such as Linux, Mac OS and Windows.

Open sourced

Dekoh software is free and open sourced. It is built on open standards like JSP, Ajax, DHTML and Flash. "Pramati has built a few application. We will wait for others to build on them," said Mr Jay Raghavendra Pullur, CEO & Founder, Pramati Technologies.

So all you have to do is download the software and within a few clicks, you can access your desktop from anywhere else. The software and use of Dekoh's network is currently free. However, the company hopes to install soon a revenue model involving charge per storage and consumption, as well as advertising.

Dekoh can also be downloaded and used on a mobile, if it belongs to the smart phone category. "With such a platform, we are getting to the stage where complete control of Web-based and distributed applications is possible from the desktop," said Prof Sadagopan.

Also speaking at the event, Mr Bhaskar Pramanik, President - India GEM, Sun Microsystems India, said, "In the Web 2.0 era, people are realising that it's not software but services that are significant. Dekoh represents the ability to capture these services. It is an opportunity for developers to continue contributing to society."

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