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We are pleased to announce the availability of the Magento Partner Program.

Magento Partners provide consulting, development, design, expertise, hosting, support or training on technologies or subject matters that are related to or include eCommerce. By joining the Magento Partner Network, our partners will be the first to offer professional Open Source eCommerce evolved. With a comprehensive, cost-effective eCommerce solution such as Magento, a partner will be able to meet the needs of customers, from small-to-midsize companies to enterprise organizations. Benefits vary by the level of partnership and include: access to Magento support, discounts, commissions, and sales and marketing resources, etc.

We look forward to creating relationships with partners with the same vision to extend the reach of Magento around the globe. If you are interested in learning more about partnership opportunities, please visit our partner portal.

If you have any questions, contact us via a web form or send us an email - partners (at) varien.com. 

The topic of Magento integration with Joomla! has been discussed extensively on the Magento Forums and the Joomla! community. It appears the first steps of such functionality are beginning to take shape.

In a recent forum thread, Magento community member, bigodines, posted a link to a Magento and Joomla! user integration plugin (via JFusion). If you are a Joomla! junkie and would like to contribute, please give this plugin a try. Feedback is requested by the developer, so feel free to share your findings.

We are excited to see such efforts taking place and would love to see Magento and Joomla! integrated

Thanks to all that attended our presentation, ”Building an Ecommerce Site with Open Source Tools / An Overview of Open Source Commerce Solutions” at SCALE 6x on Sunday. Magento was well received and it was great to meet members of the community face to face

Magento has been selected to present in Under the Radar: The Business of WebApps Conference, taking place on March 20th in Mountain View, CA.

Under the Radar will uncover 32 startups, that have launched within the year, showcasing the newest web apps created by developers with a quest for innovation and a tendency towards disruption. Having launched numerous companies into startup stardom, acquisition and beyond, Under the Radar is the most discerning and reliable platform today for discovering tomorrow’s leading technology companies ... Out of the hundreds of nominations and startups we found in our own research - we’ve looked at them all - these startups are the best of the best. We’re looking for game-changers, innovators and, most of all, startups that have a real shot at success.

We’re excited to take part in this prestigious event. Past companies include Zimbra, Writely, Flickr, Userplane, and more. Thanks to the selection committee for giving us a shot

As previously mentioned, Magento will be presented in a session titled ”Building an Ecommerce Site with Open Source Tools / An Overview of Open Source Commerce Solutions” at SCALE 6x, Southern California Linux Expo. The event takes place on February 8-10, 2008 at the Westin Los Angeles Airport.

The Southern California Linux Expo is an annual Linux, Open-Source, and Free Software conference held in Los Angeles, CA. This is one of three community run open-source events in the United States.

The Southern California Linux also known as SCALE has been held annually since 2002. The event features an expo floor with both commercial and .org / non-profit exhibitors, as well as 2 days of seminars on the topic of Linux and Open Source software. Some past exhibitors have included: IBM, Sharp, MySQL, Debian, KDE, OpenDocument Fellowship, Google, MythTV, and others.

Hope to see you there!

We are very excited to announce a partnership between Magento and StrikeIron, the leader in Data as a Service. The integration with StrikeIron will provide Magento store owners the ability to easily integrate with a variety of useful data, including global address verification, sales and use tax rates (US), currency exchange rates and email verification.

The ability to access this information through a web service will provide numerous benefits to Magento store owners.

“StrikeIron is excited that Magento will be integrating our web services with their ecommerce platform,” said Bob Brauer, president and CEO of StrikeIron. “This partnership illustrates the ease with which applications can be extended with real-time data offered through our web services.”

The production version of Magento (Magento 1.0) will include integration with two of the StrikeIron web services to begin, with more to follow soon after, including address verification for the US and sales tax rates.

The first two StrikeIron web services to be integrated will be the Foreign Exchange Rates Web Service and the Email Verification Web Service.

The Foreign Exchange Rates Web Service includes current foreign exchange rates for 23 current and 9 legacy currencies, provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and updated every day at 12 noon EST. This integration will allow Magento store owners to display up-to-date prices to their customers in multiple currencies.

The Email Verification Web Service instantly verifies whether an email address exists or not, without having to send an email.

Magento Store Owners will be able to enjoy the benefits of both services after signing up with StrikeIron.

In the nick of time, Magento reached another milestone today - 100,000 downloads. The graph below shows the progress of downloads leading up to today.

This is an incredible achievement that could not have happened without the support of the community. We are very grateful and look forward to what’s shaping out to be an exciting 2008 for eCommerce.

Happy New Year everyone!

Magento will be presented in a session titled ”Building an Ecommerce Site with Open Source Tools / An Overview of Open Source Commerce Solutions” at SCALE 6x, Southern California Linux Expo. The event takes place on February 8-10, 2008 at the Westin Los Angeles Airport.

The Southern California Linux Expo is an annual Linux, Open-Source, and Free Software conference held in Los Angeles, CA. This is one of three community run open-source events in the United States.

The Southern California Linux also known as SCALE has been held annually since 2002. The event features an expo floor with both commercial and .org / non-profit exhibitors, as well as 2 days of seminars on the topic of Linux and Open Source software. Some past exhibitors have included: IBM, Sharp, MySQL, Debian, KDE, OpenDocument Fellowship, Google, MythTV, and others.

Hope to see you there!