“If I were a commercial shopping cart vendor I’d be afraid. Very afraid.”
So is Magento worthy of the hype? In short, yes. This is one awesome looking product. If I were a commercial shopping cart vendor I’d be afraid. Very afraid. This has the freedom and flexibility - not to mention the $0 price tag - of an open source solution, but it also has the polish and sophistication of a commercial solution ...
Magento does have a lot of features and flexibility that put most commercial products to shame. The marketing promotions manager - I was drooling on my keyboard at the flexibility! It seems that no matter what tool I use, the marketing managers always dream up some promotion that can’t be done. Well, I challenge them: come up with a promotion that Magento can’t do! I’m not saying it’s unlimited, but it’s the best I’ve seen.
Read the review in the Shopping Cart Reviews blog.
1maciek79 |posted December 3 2007
Congratulations to Varien team. Keep working
Hope to see next preview-release soon…
2Phliplip from Copenhagen, Denmark|posted December 3 2007
Congratulations on this fine review
3overworked554 |posted December 3 2007
Shopify recently posted a customer survey asking for feedback in which they specifically asked if there were any features missing. I started to list them all out but then realized there was a better way of passing the message… “Just visit http://www.magentoecommerce.com...”
4ecomdev from Dresden|posted December 3 2007
yes, be afraid..... this is the next killer application ...
5Ron Seigel from Ottawa, ON|posted December 3 2007
If you think the commercial shopping cart vendors are “afraid” just wait till you see the open source ones.
Magento already makes OSC, Zen and all the other wanna-bes look like a joke. Zen just released 1.3.8 today and it’s just more of the same spaghetti code they’ve always released.
GO GO MAGENTO!
6mikemike |posted December 20 2007
I’m very confused. Is Magento going to remain after the Beta period is over?
7RoyRubin from Los Angeles, CA|posted December 20 2007
@mikemike - yes.