Sapodesk has been launched into the world of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) because we at Sapotek believe that a huge wave is soon to change the IT industry dramatically. We view a future where the Web becomes the platform and the local OS becomes a simple piece of software capable of running a browser and its plugins and of playing multimedia files reliably and consistently. All the rest - the applications, the processing and storage of data - will take place on servers where FOSS OSs such as Linux and OpenSolaris will reign.

In our view of the future, users assume control over their IT usage and rebel against the computer and software maintenance chores that the current model [of a local OS and applications] imposes upon us. We are more productive and more time-efficient because software is never outdated and information is never "incompatible". Moreover, IT folks increase productivity and well-being because they move from supporting disparate machines to keeping and maintaining software on servers.

We see a future where development cycles go from the insular, stress-laden, stop-gap workshops of today to a model where developers are continually adding features, improving software, creating great new functionalities and correcting problems, all on the fly. This model reduces the pressure of timed releases, allows for a more creative work environment amongst developers, and ensures that users get quality software all the time.

All this is possible because in our vision software will never be distributed again. There won't be a constellation of versions out there coming back to haunt the developer with old problems time and again. Software will only be served and for the developer that will mean only one single version, one single installation and one focus: quality.

Users will enjoy all of these advantages without having to perform any installations and without having to upgrade their hardware (for the most part). The computer will become ubiquitous and irtual at the same time, thereby eliminating a physical presence for the user.

Any device will be capable of accessing user information and thus the problems users face today - keeping different versions of documents on different computers, incompatible contacts that don't tranlsate from one device to another, inability to read/edit documents on devices that don't have the "correct" version of software - will simply vanish. Software will just "work" and documents, contacts, messages and applications will always be there, regardless of whether that device sits on a desk, in the palm of a hand or above an airplane tray table.

Sapotek sees a future where IT integrates easily into the lives of users as opposed to the prevailing paradigm where users must make accommodations to integrate their lives into what IT has to offer.

When users aren't chained to the information contained in a desktop computer and when they are released from synchronization, backup, installation and other chores that relate to their computers (and not to their work), then IT will fulfill its eternal promise: to make life simpler and more productive by allowing users to manage and keep all the information they need at their fingertips, wherever they may be.

That is our vision and the reason behind Sapodesk.