This was somewhat of a surprise for HELM users.

http://www.swsoft.com/en/helm/

I wonder if cPanel is next!

yea, yea, probably not... but you have to admit that would be crazy!

Wow. And I sure hope not, as I'd rather have 2 choices than 1... just in case I don't like the way they take things.

And now another sale:
Parallels (formerly SWsoft)

Man, that's 3 month old news!

I guess I have been too busy to keep up with the mergers

Yeah, true dat. I'll never sell PhireFast. EVER.

There's so much more to life and business than cash...

Even though my own favorite so far has not been affected by this, it somehow felt comforting having other control panels "doing it their way" and independent so there were other major development threads going in case my needs ever diverged and I wanted to jump ship. Now with ensim, plesk, helm (and virtuozzo) all under the same parallels roof, it feels like the playing field has gotten a lot smaller on a couple of counts.