SWSoft to take over Parallels?

Jisi · Jan 22, 2007

Hi,

I just read that SWSoft (http://www.swsoft.com/) intends to buy/ take over Parallels. (see german article here: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/83980).

Will this really happen? What will be the effects of this from a customer POV?

Jisi · Jan 22, 2007

Ok. Move on. Nothing to see here

Obviously that news wasn't investigated very well. According to
http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/19/tec...arallels.fortune/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote

The tectonics of virtualization are shifting. It turns out that Parallels is not such a little company after all. About three years ago it was quietly purchased by an enterprise-focused virtualization company called SWsoft, a fact that has never been publicly disclosed until now.

SWsoft and its Parallels subsidiary are both Russian-American operations. SWsoft CEO Serguei Beloussov, based in Virginia, calls the shots for programmers who are based in Moscow. Parallels employed only seven when SWsoft bought it, but today has 100 people, mostly in Russian R&D.

Olivier · Jan 22, 2007

Jisi said:
Ok. Move on. Nothing to see here

This might summarize it all:
http://www.virtualization.info/2006/08/russian-entrepreneur-controls-dormant.html

Olivier · Jan 22, 2007

Olivier said:
This might summarize it all:
http://www.virtualization.info/2006/08/russian-entrepreneur-controls-dormant.html

And the definitive answer is here, by Ben@Parallels himself:
http://parallelsvirtualization.blogspot.com/2007/01/parallels-swsoft-one-stop-shopping-for_22.html
So these are in some ways old news, but good news, just recently made public.