Magento - A robust ecommerce platform
Murali K,
April 21, 2008
A new comer in Open Source World, a new ecommerce platform is released, It has been in beta for a while. Magento is completely modular and very flexible in its design and have lots of controls to tweak around.
It builds the a fully functional ecommerce website in minutes with nice templates and very easier admin interface unlike the other popular open source software such as OSCommerce/Zencart which usually needs lots of tweaking with admin interface and templates.
In my initial testing, I found Magento to run slow when compared to other, I believe it is due to the framework they have adapted. A tour is in their website
It can also run as a single CMS for multiple websites which is easier to setup.
There are lots of developers and community has been developed during the beta. It is going to fun implementing this new system. Lots of features were included in the system which should be easier to setup a basic portal and can be customized to an enterprise level.