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Almost every hosting company offers to its customers a range of 1-click applications like Joomla, PHP Nuke, Wiki, Wordpress etc.

Within its Open Fusion framework, SWsoft now tries to set its “Application Packaging Standard” as a standard.

In one sentence, APS defines a ZIP file with a special XML-file containing meta data of the application. Full specifications here.

This is a nifty move from SWsoft

Establishing a standard should strengthen their position within the hosting industry and tie hosting companies closer to SWsoft.

Besides of that, this “pluggable” approach to distributing SaaS applications would surely be a good thing. It would make it easier for hosting companies to offer applications and developers would be able to increase the spread of their software since they could seamlessly integrate into the hosting environment.

At least that’s the plan.

Let’s see if hosting companies, and more specifically control panel providers other than Plesk/SWsoft and software developers, will adopt that standard. 1&1 (USA) did (in cooperation with SWsoft) and 1&1 (D) is supposed to follow in the second half of this year.

This concept is not really new, Fantastico on cPanel has been around for quite some time now.

1&1 Application Packaging Standard APS cPanel Fantastico Hosting HSP ISV Open Fusion Plesk SaaS SWsoft Web Hosting

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