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TOWARD AN OPEN
HOSTING ECOSYSTEM
OPEN FUSION is a
long-term initiative launched by SWsoft to address
software integration problems in the web hosting
industry. The goal of OPEN FUSION is to create an open
software platform and ecosystem around it to
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Enable hosting
providers to customize, extend and integrate SWsoft
hosting automation products and 3rd-party software
components into their hosting environments.
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Provide components
necessary to automate all business and operational
aspect of the hosting business.
As a part of OPEN
FUSION initiative SWsoft will gradually move all its
products to the common platform with the following
features:
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Open API – All
products will expose their functional and management
interfaces as standard-based XML web services with
language bindings for most popular languages.
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SDK and
documentation – SWsoft provides complete SDK (Software
Development Kit) that consists of reference
documentation for all APIs, additional development tools
and complete set of guidelines and code samples.
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Single Sign-On
Engine – Provides single sign-on capabilities to all
participating components. The benefits of using AE
include single sign-on, cross-product sessions and
integration with external directories and billing
systems.
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Licensing Engine
– Provides common facility for issuing, accounting and
reporting on the products keys and licenses.
Integrated UI – provides facility for passing important
UI information between applications, such as locale and
visual theme.
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Community –
SWDN provides technical information and on-line forums
for users and third-party vendors of hosting automation
products.
OPEN FUSION Roadmap
OPEN FUSION will be delivered in phases aligned with
SWsoft product releases.
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OPEN FUSION Phase 0 -
shipping now. Improved integration between Virtuozzo,
Plesk, Expand and HSPcomplete.
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OPEN FUSION Phase 1 -
2007. Virtuozzo, Plesk, Expand, SiteBuilder and
HSPcomplete move to a common platform that includes
Authentication Engine, Licensing Engine, Web services
APIs, Unified UI.
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OPEN FUSION Phase 2 -
2008. OPEN FUSION platform is extended to include
Service Provisioning/Update Engine, Task/Workflow Engine
and Migration Engine.
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