Sun and Sapotek

It's true you can develop new applications on your laptop on just about any operating system, but you wouldn't deploy it on your laptop. You could wait until you're ready to deploy to start worrying about scalability and reliability, but that could give your competition just enough time to beat you to market. Or, it could cause some serious issues if your application becomes extremely popular and yet just doesn't scale.

What you get:

Free desktop and storage (5 GB)
Hard drive to store your files
Email (POP-based so you can integrate your other email applications)
Calendar
Office productivity tools (open source OpenOffice with writer, spreadsheets, presentations, and more)
IM client, chat rooms, and forums
Shareable bookmarks

RSS reader
Blog creater
Address book
MP3 player (play music from your on-line hard drive or the Internet)
No more patches or upgrade fees for office productivity tools
Back up files easily so that they're always available
And more...

What you can do:

Share files, documents, and photos with co-workers, friends, and family
Share a common calendar and address book with all co-workers, friends, and family
Read mail from all of your mail clients with one interface
Easily create blogs without learning new software or worrying about where to host them
Chat while sharing your on-line documents

Individuals, Homeowners, Work-at-Home

Looking to upgrade the family computers to more energy-efficient models? Tired of maintaining software levels and paying upgrade fees? Need mobile access for your increasingly mobile family? Desktoptwo can free your family from the chains of the home office system. When your desktop is on-line, all you need to access it is any device that supports an Adobe Flash plug-in and Java, so you can upgrade to much smaller systems at home. All software is open source and free, including office productivity tools, so you don't have to worry about upgrading or trying to support the same software on your PC and your child's Mac.

Students

Your budget is tight, you're always on the move, and you need the ability to share with your friends. With Desktoptwo you can access the tools you need for school, and the tools you need to communicate with your friends and other students.

Interested in developing applications? Join the Sapodesk free software community to create open source Web applications. On Sapodesk, you can write code, design interfaces, translate to other languages, or share your knowledge with others.

Small Businesses or Organizations

If you're a small business or organization or just starting out in business, the last thing you want to worry about is office systems and office productivity tools. With Desktoptwo you can access and share email, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more from almost anywhere.

Your office is where ever you are, without lugging your laptop
Device independence — it doesn't matter what computer or OS your employees are using
Open source OpenOffice productivity tools use open data formats, so you can share and open files from other productivity tools
You have total control over the desktops and can decide on the level of security that is best for your organization
Ability to customize applications to any specifications

Developers

Sapotek's free software community, Sapodesk, provides the open source tools to help you create user friendly, Web-based applications within a unified, ubiquitous framework.

“Sun's servers and the Solaris OS help us support more users with higher availability, lower energy costs, and lower storage costs.”

— Joshua D. Rand, CEO, Sapotek

Build on Eco-Friendly, Open Platforms

Desktoptwo is hosted on eco-friendly Sun Fire X2100, X4100, and X4500 servers with energy saving AMD Opteron processors. If you're moving to an on-line desktop to help save energy at home or in the office, you can rest assured that the systems running Desktoptwo are saving energy as well.

Desktoptwo is built entirely with the open source AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack, which runs even faster on Sun's optimized Web Stack on the Solaris Operating System.

Sun and Sapotek

When Sapotek needed more power to support more users, they turned to Sun. Sun's vast experience in multithreading operating systems and servers, together with the company's open source and environmentally friendly visions pair ideally with Sapotek's requirements and philosophy.