We are pleased to announce a collaborative partnership between Varien and Parallels (formerly SWsoft), a company well known for providing virtualization and automation solutions (including the Plesk Control Panel) to more than 10,000 hosting providers who collectively serve more than 12 millions domains worldwide.

Through the partnership, Parallels will make Magento available to end users as a one-click installation by providing the eCommerce software through their Parallels Service Provider Channel to hosting providers such as 1&1, Host Europe, and Cohaesio.

Roy Rubin, Founder and CEO of Varien, said of the new partnership: “Parallels is the #1 leader in hosting automation/SaaS software, so we are very happy to align with them and provide Magento to potentially up to millions of end users.”

Soeren von Varchmin, Vice President of Parallels, SaaS and Service Providers International, added “We believe that Magento is a fantastic and valuable eCommerce solution that complements the growing portfolio of APS applications that our service providers will offer to their SMB and SoHo customers.”

Magento will first be packaged by Parallels into the Application Packaging Standard (APS) format and certified before being made available through the Service Provider Channel.

Parallels will also highlight Magento at the upcoming Parallels Summit 2008, to be held in Washington, DC, May 19-20, 2008. More information on the Parallels SaaS Program and the APS standard can be found on the Parallels SaaS website and at APSstandard.com.

Due to the complexities of the underlying software required to run Magento I doubt that you will see a Fantastico installation anytime in the near future.  The install would simply fail for 99% of the web servers that Fantastico is available on because of these underlying requirements.

The one click installation procedure will likely be at the container level for Parallels products and then followed by an Application Vault release for the Parallels Plesk product.

Something tells me that the Fantastico installer is just a fantasy. 

Richard

So I’m not expecting Magento in there anytime soon.  Would be nice though.

This is great news and we’re VERY happy to see this partnership.  Parallels is the industry leader in hosting solutions and to have this partnership will only lead to great things for both companies.

We’re proud to be Partner with and provide services for both Varien and Parallels.  This news clearly validates our partnership with each of these great companies.

Congratulations indeed!
Richard

P.S I’ve already mentioned Magento to 2 ISPs, but it won’t be long now before Magento is too big for any ISP to ignore.

So far I’ve only done one install, locally.

But yeah, I see a cPanel install coming pretty soon. If not, I’ll certainly make one (and have thought about doing it before).

Spread the word to your hosting provider and send them our way - we’d love to work with them to make Magento accessible to everyone with as little effort as possible.

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