Date:03/04/2011 URL:
http://www.thehindu.com/2011/04/03/stories/2011040354111000.htm
National
Webtop in the clouds
Paromita Pain
A screen shot of iDuple
that aggregates web services across the Internet.
AUSTIN, TEXAS: He claims to sell dreams. Quiz him on it and Sreelaj John (25)
will talk about his venture iDuple. "The word iDuple means 'I sell dreams.'
It aggregates web services scattered across the Internet under one platform,"
he explains.
Essentially, the iDuple Webtop is a web desktop that originated from the
concept of a web-based windows environment. Windows is a very familiar
environment
for a user, and building an application that functions exactly like Windows
will definitely improve the user experience, which in turn will increase
productivity,
believe its creators. Of course, simplicity is a buzzword. Sharing files here
only requires the twin skills of drag and drop.
Sun Startup Essentials has granted its blessings for the team's latest offering
- the Internet-enabled iDuple tablet with just a web browser. Designed to
connect to a remote server running a virtual operating system, this tablet that
has no hard drive will work on the cloud computing concept, with each user
assigned 50 GB of storage in the clouds. Costing much lower than the average
tablet, it's been designed with a touch screen and boots in five second.
No data is ever lost since everything is stored in the 'clouds.' "We are
focussing a lot on small medium enterprises wanting to bring down their software
licence costs. Let's take the example of office applications. Microsoft Office
applications are extremely sophisticated and expensive. But how many of
us actually use them to their full potential? For most of us, a basic word
processor is enough," he explains.
They have built applications such as Disk Drives, Calendar, RSS Manager, Sticky
Notes, Notepads, Document Viewers/Editors, Email Clients and Instant Messengers
on the webtop platform. "For enterprises with data security concerns, we will
provide branded installations so that they can have their own private networks
or intranet platform," he says.
He is the first to admit that though his idea might be novel in terms of
concept, the advantages might be immediately apparent. "We provide alternatives
to a lot of online or offline applications and services which are costly and
the other players in those domain automatically become our competitors.
Hopefully,
we can convince them to work together to provide the maximum advantage to the
customer," he explains.
The team works very closely with other companies and freelancers who, Sreelaj
believes, tend to be the best in the industry. "We take design very seriously,
and the one thing that we boast about our product is its user interface," he
says. In a mood to expand, they are forming partnerships with foreign companies
to have access to their markets.
Visit www.iDuple.com for a free demo.
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