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SWsoft Acquires Parallels

Thursday, 25 January 2007 by Michel Roth

In a memo to their employees, the CEOs of two leading virtualization companies recently revealed that their companies have merged. Specifically, Serguei Beloussov, of SWsoft Inc. and Nick Dobrovolskiy of Parallels Inc. acknowledged that SWsoft now owns Parallels.

According to a source close to the companies, SWsoft bought Parallels "about a year ago -- but kept them very separate and very quiet." Moving forward, the CEOs said that "Parallels and SWsoft have continued to grow and succeed independently in the marketplaces in which they participate."

Sources claim that the SWsoft is finally acknowledging the partnership because news of the deal was begin to leak out. Officially, the CEOs said they were announcing the arrangement, "Because of the growing synergies between the two companies, we have decided to publicly acknowledge that Parallels is controlled by SWsoft as a means of further advancing our business goals."

Both companies have made a reputation for themselves in different areas of the growing virtualization market. Parallels is best known for its Mac desktop virtual machine program, Parallels Desktop for Mac. This program competes with Apple's own Boot Camp, as well as with virtualization leader VMWare's Fusion, which enables Intel-based Mac users to run Linux, Solaris, and Windows desktop virtual machines.

The two companies' CEOs claim that "the combination of SWsoft and Parallels means that we are the only company in the world to provide a complete suite of virtualization and automation software that includes operating system virtualization (Virtuozzo), desktop virtual machine technology (Parallels) and our range of automation solutions across all major computing platforms including Windows, Linux, MacOS and beyond."

Looking ahead, "SWsoft and Parallels will be announcing more products that will enhance the choices available to IT professionals, developers and consumers. These will include a server edition of Parallels, as well as tools for managing multiple virtualization technologies - whether from SWsoft, Parallels or other vendors -- with one user interface."

Via VMBlog.com.