Magento

It’s by far one of the more exciting e-commerce platforms available for free on the market today. Dripping with features, they really have thought of everything. Wishlists, shop by price and category, item comparison - all the things we’ve come to expect from professional web stores. Its software as good as this that really keeps licensed software on their toes..

Not Your Average Geeks blog review of ”9 kick ass Open Source E-commerce platforms”.

(also mentioned on CNET - Thanks Matt!)

Magento was recently covered by Israel's TheMarker newspaper (often referred to as Israel's Wall Street Journal) in its printed daily edition. The article provides an overview of Varien as well as insight into the commercial open source business model. See the full article here (in Hebrew)

Put in English, Magento is an open-source solution for setting up and managing an online store. The product appears to be pretty robust already, but the roadmap looks even better.

If you need to set up an online store, why pay the six- to seven-figures to do so when you can use Magento for free and then pay when you want support going into production?

Read the rest of the article by Matt Asay.

Thanks for your interest Matt! We open sourcerors like to shake things up

Sentences.org listed Magento as an ”Essential Tools for the Freelancer” in a recent post. Additional essential tools include Basecamp (project management), Blinksale (invoicing), Harvest (time tracking), and Mailbuild (newsletter distribution), among others.

Magento is a new and powerful open source eCommerce platform. If you’re clients need to be able to open an online store and sell products, I would suggest you look into implementing Magento. It’s fairly new, but looks fresh and intuitive. It’s a great alternative to existing platforms that are less user friendly, and more of a pain to integrate (yes, I’m talking about you ZenCart!)

Thanks Bryan for including us in the list!

Magento is featured in the latest issue of T3N magazine from Germany. In addition to an overview of the product, a two-page interview with Yoav (CTO) and Roy (CEO) is presented.

The T3N magazine is the world’s first print magazine on the subject of Open Source, web development and TYPO3.  It focuses on current industry issues in addition to web development and the Open-Source Content management system TYPO3, as well as interesting projects from the open-source environment.

Get the latest issue here. Thanks to Marcel (AKA 73inches) and Rico (AKA Rizi) from the Magento German Community for all the help!

Roy Rubin, Varien’s CEO, was recently interviewed by Google’s Enterprise Search Team:

We talked with Roy Rubin, who was the driver behind the beautiful implementation of CSBE [Custom Business Search Engine] at Magento. We have decided to retain his original Q&A format so that prospects and users can easily see the decision process for this particular case to use Google’s Custom Search Engine.

Read the full interview on Google’s Blog

In a recent blog post, Marc from the Next Generation Shopping blog compared Magento to ASP.NET shopping carts:

I’m a sucker for good lucks and that’s exactly what Magento is: Good Looking! Utilizing Scriptlicious, AJAX, and tagging it has Web 2.0 written all over it. It comes with a wide array of features ‘out of the box’ ... I would definitely keep an eye on this going into 2008. It looked pretty enough on the outside to make me consider moving from ASP.NET to PHP for the project ... If I was a competitor I would look at all the things they are doing right and take notes.

Although Marc decided not to use Magento for the project (well ... since Magento is currently in a preview release), we appreciate the kind words. Thanks Marc!

Magento was recently covered by Mashable. With more than 5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the world's largest blog focused exclusively on social networks. The article asks the question, "Is Magento the Zimbra of eCommerce?" (Zimbra is a professional open source company recently acquired by Yahoo) - check it out and let us know what you think.

Magento was recently covered in Read/WriteWeb, a popular weblog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis. Read/WriteWeb began publishing on April 20, 2003 and is now one of the most widely read and respected blogs in the world.

“Magento looks to be an easy to use and easily customizable open source e-commerce platform. There are sure to be many web developers and startups keen to try it out.”

Thanks for writing about us Richard!