The Mountain View, CA-based company is going after small businesses and professional offices. Unlike Centerbeam, Everdream custom-builds its own PCs. The mirrored partition also provides storage space for users to add their own applications and data. At boot-up, the system goes through a series of checks to see if any software or data has been corrupted. If any element is missing, the PC uses the mirror backup or reverts to a remote server to fix the problem.
Users can also add applications to the main partition.
In partnering with Microsoft, the old PCs can be donated to nonprofit institutions. For very small companies, Everdream is happy to start small if you just want to add one or two of their systems. For 10 or more systems, Everdream includes free DSL service, depending upon its availability. And so they delay upgrading, and it becomes more painful. We've simplified the process.