Comments on: A gigantic leap for e-commerce

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:02:25 +0000

Roy and his team haven’t given up an exact date yet. But being that they’ve already stated August, I’d assume it’d be in their best interest to use as much of August as possible to get all the bugs worked out.

A safe bet would be 3rd or 4th week of August, in my opinion.

By: Virgil Viall

Virgil Viall — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:24:32 +0000

Magenta may be the next best thing but who knows for sure. It looks nice and sure others are outdated.

The main problem I have with open source software is its huge vulnerability to being hacked. Sure even the scripts you pay for or design in-house are vulnerable as well but with the source being available to all it is much easier for some hacker to find flaws. If you do not keep up to date on all the latest upgrades well then you are even more susceptible to visiting your site and seeing some hacked page.

As far as security goes with e-commerce that should be job one.

By: chris.pund

chris.pund — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:00:39 +0000

I hope this will take care of product varriants much better than any other system or at least include an easy to use option for it unlike shopify, quick cart, or oscommerce.

I as well will have to try and stall a couple clients to wait for this to be released to use for their stores.

Any exact launch date set that you know of Travis? Or just August for now?

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:23:24 +0000

This is quite exciting, and I’m really looking forward to it. My online store uses osCommerece, and it is very outdated and hacked beyond belief to get it to SOMEWHAT work the way I want.

I’m counting down the days!

By: Mat

Mat — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:33:30 +0000

Nice one Travis :D

By: Travis

Travis — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:03:50 +0000

Thanks for taking a break, reading this post, and commenting, Roy.

I tried to keep my response as nice as possible. But I agree.

In regards to osCommerce being used by “10’s of thousands of sites”…………..LSD is used by 100’s of thousands of people, but that doesn’t make it right either. :)

By: Roy Rubin

Roy Rubin — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:15:31 +0000

Travis – thanks for writing about Magento. We’re extermely excited about the product and appreciate your kind words.

In regards to the Google store comment above, take a look at a post on the Varien blog titled “Google International Store Uses osCommerce … and is FULL of bugs”. There is also a screencast to view the bugs in action. Google does a lot of things well, in this case, the execution was mediocre at best.

That said, osCommerce has been and still is a great solution for many online merchants.

Roy
Magento

By: Mat

Mat — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:05:31 +0000

Thanks for the post

I hate Zen Cart but it was the best I could get

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 05:14:01 +0000

Yep, tens of thousands of shitty osCommerce websites out there. BTW – Google is notorious for hideous or in many cases non-existent UI so osCommerce fits the bill. Not to mention they have katrillions of dollars to throw around so customizing osCommerce to fit their needs is nice and easy for them, but not so much for the small business owner with limited knowledge.

Kym – why don’t you share your osCommerce site with the rest of the group?

By: Travis

Travis — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 05:07:01 +0000

osCommerce is a good application. You’re right, 10’s of thousands of websites use it. But that’s only because it was one of few available solutions for a free e-commerce app.

Compared to today’s standards in development, usability, expansion capabilities, and whatnot, osCommerce is nowhere near up to par.

It hasn’t done to e-commerce what Wordpress has to blogging, and that’s establish an undeniable lead in it’s market. Every single person I know in this area, still struggles in choosing an e-commerce app. I personally think that Magento is going to step in and own the market.

You don’t have to agree with me. It doesn’t matter to me whether or not you use Magento or osCommerce. I was just sharing my opinion based upon what I’ve seen to date.

osCommerce is not competing with me. I don’t have anything to do with them or Magento other than being a potential user. So an opinionated post on a blog that I co-own, is far from a slanderous attack or “pathetic marketing”.

Loosen up that collar a bit.