BANGALORE, INDIA: Softaculous Ltd., the developer of Softaculous Auto Installer that simplifies Application deployment on various hosting platforms, announced that they have launched version 4.0.

This version of Softaculous, which is also available in AMPPS, has User Interface improvements, Developer API improvements and many bug fixes said a company spokesperson.

The company also announced the launch of AMPPS 1.5.

Softaculous Auto Installer integrates into popular hosting control panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, H-Sphere and Interworx and allows the user to install any application by the click of a button, said a press release.

"We have been working really hard to make Softaculous, Webuzo and AMPPS the best applications in their respective categories," said Pulkit Gupta, Softaculous founder and CEO, "and with version 4.0 of Softaculous and version 1.5 of AMPPS we are surely getting there."

"We have seen tremendous growth in the usage of AMPPS and some new features are also going to be released soon. At the same time some new products are also in the pipeline," added Gupta.

According to the release, Softaculous apps library contains applications, including: WordPress, b2evolution, StatusNet, Drupal, Joomla, Concrete5, phpBB, MyBB, SMF, bbPress, Coppermine, Gallery, Mediawiki, DokuWiki, TikiWiki, Elgg, Dolphin, OpenX, SquirrelMail, LimeSurvey, Piwik, Mantis, SugarCRM, WHMCS, PrestaShop, Magento, CraftySyntax, osTicket, Moodle, Claroline, etc.

"AMPPS is specially beneficial to the Web Developers as they will not have to spend time installing Apache, MySQL, PHP, PERL, Python seperately and also they can install various blogs, cms, wikis, forums, etc. on their desktops by the click of a button. If you are a web developer and have not tried AMPPS, you have certainly not tried the best WAMP or MAMP stack" said Pulkit Gupta, COO of Softaculous Ltd.

Softaculous Apps are also available in the form of Virtual Appliances. The Virtual Appliances (called Webuzo) contain all the necessary server software required to power the various.