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Hyderabad based company Pramati announced its product Dekoh in the Java One Conference 2007. Immediately I downloaded their application last week end and had a look around it. Dekoh’s goal is to bring the web and the desktop together and to give developers the ability to create applications on top of that platform. Those applications can be shared and deployed anywhere in the network. It’s a great goal, but there are more flexible desktop technologies on the horizon like Apollo and Silverlight in the market right now.

(Hyderabad-based Pramati Technologies’ co-founders, Mr Vijay Pullar (left), Chief Technology Officer, and Mr Jay Pullar, Chief Executive Officer, at the company’s stand at JavaOne in San Francisco, where they launched the company’s new product, Dekoh )

That said, there are definitely parts of Dekoh that don’t exist in other places. Dekoh is built on Java and you can move seamlessly between online and offline mode thanks to an embedded web server. When you create an account, you’re given a Dekoh portal, something like yourname.dekoh.com and you can add buddies, install applications and share your desktop. It adds an interesting twist of social networking to the webtop space and in the example I saw, you could share photos or invite your buddies to play a game.