Magento

Date: May 20-22, 2008
Location: Sydney, Australia
Session: Filling in the Open Source Shopping Cart Vacuum

After years of e-Commerce system experience and design, 2007 has seen Magento e-Commerce, a state-of-the-art, Open Source e-Commerce platform released by Varien. Since initial release it has been downloaded over 200,000 times, and still counting! Roy will speak on the strategy that positioned Varien as one of the most promising Internet companies…

Date: June 9-12, 2008
Location: Chicago, IL
Booth: #643

The Internet Retailer 2008 Conference & Exhibition is not only the world’s largest e-retailing conference, it is one of America’s fastest growing conferences ... Because of its size and scope the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition brings together representatives of hundreds of retail, catalog, manufacturing and consumer service companies that specialize in e-retailing. Virtually all of the Top 500 e-retailers attend as well as hundreds of smaller players that fall outside this prestigious group.

Magento Community member, Kadima, has tipped us of the resurrection of Magento’s Wikipedia page. If you are interested in taking part, the page can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magento.

As part of Google Summer of Code ‘08, a Magento / Drupal integration project is getting off the ground. A detailed proposal has been posted on the Groups.Drupal site, and the abstract is included below:

Magento has just released production ready version 1.0 and has comprehensive support ecosystem for its users. Current existing ecommerce modules for Drupal either do not have production ready release or do not support Drupal 6. Hence, integration between Drupal and Magento will be the powerful combination and will drive embracing of Drupal 6 even more.

This project aims to tightly integrate Magento into Drupal by coming up with a Magento module and a few essential native Magento blocks. The integration is elaborate upto the level of rendering Magento as a Drupal page.

There has been a lot of interest by the Magento and Drupal communities for such an integration to take place. This is certainly going to be picking up a lot of steam in the weeks ahead.

I just wanted to give you guys some feedback on how amazing your product is. I’ve been a Zen Cart/OS Commerce developer for 5 years and have worked in e-commerce my entire career. I’ve downloaded Magento and gave it a test run and I cannot say how impressed I am with it. From an SEO standpoint it’s amazing. From a usability standpoint it’s fantastic. Navigation is great, looks are great. I will start switching all my customers and my sites to Magento thanks to this wonderful product.

I want to say thank you to the Magento team for delivering such a wonderful and detail-precise product for free.

Jay M., E-Commerce Developer

We are very excited to announce the release of the all new Magento Community site which includes many great new features to serve the Magento community.

We are very excited to announce a collaboration between Varien and (mt) Media Temple, Inc., to deliver Magento 1.0 through a one-click installation wizard to over 200,000 domains on Media Temple’s (gs) Grid-Service.

Roy Rubin, Founder and CEO of Varien, said, “Media Temple and their Grid Service are at the forefront of hosting and we are thrilled that Magento will be available as a one-click install to all of Media Temple’s Grid Service customers. This relationship reaffirms our commitment to make Magento the leading open-source eCommerce platform on the market.”

“Varien’s brand new Magento 1.0 is an incredible ecommerce platform and we’re very excited to get it into the hands of our Grid users. It’s new to the ecommerce market but Magento will be the one to beat.” Says David Feinberg, Sr. Product Manager of Media Temple. “Mashable compared them to Zimbra, and based on Roy’s team and their experience, I think they’ll easily achieve similar results in the ecommerce market.”

Through the partnership Magento will join popular applications WordPress and Drupal as being available by one-click install to all Grid Service customers. They’ll be able to install and set up their ecommerce store in minutes without any development experience. The intuitive controls of Media Temple’s AccountCenter and Magento’s Admin control panels provide clients with a powerful, but easy to use, toolset for building their online commerce.  The Magento one-click installer will be available immediately following the release of Magento 1.0

We are extremely excited and proud to announce the production release of Magento 1.0 (Download | Release Notes). The new community site will be online later this week and feature additional functionality, highlighted by Magento Connect.

Wow, this has been a mad race to the finish line and the day is finally here.

To everyone who spread the word about Magento, told a friend, wrote in blogs, posted and commented in the Magento forums, subscribed to our newsletter, downloaded one (or more) of our 11 preview releases, reported bugs, participated in the Magento community, to the online merchants who waited for Magento 1.0, developers and designers who convinced their clients to wait for the product and our partners who recognized the potential -- Thank you for believing.

The community site will be down for a short period of time while we ‘take care of business’ for the Magento 1.0 release. Follow us on twitter for updates should the server not hold up once we go live.

Thanks for your support. Magento 1.0 is right around the corner.