Magento Blog http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/ en Magento Marketing Copyright 2013 2013-05-20T16:48:00-08:00 Magento - 100 Days Later http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/magento-100-days-later/ http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/magento-100-days-later/#When:01:40:00Z Magento 100 Days Later

70,000 downloads, 4600+ Members, 10,000+ Forum Posts, 15 Blog Languages, 15+ Translations, 7 Releases  

Hard to believe, but December 9th will mark 100 days since the release of the Magento preview version and community site.

And as the numbers indicate, Magento could not have come a day sooner. The Magento preview version, which first piqued the interest of developers, designers and store owners when it was announced in April 2007, was an instant hit.

An active community, now 4,600+ members-strong, formed around Magento with a blistering pace. Eager to learn Magento, they installed the preview release, read the blogs, searched the knowledge base, viewed the screencasts and engaged each other and the Magento team in the forums.

And while the world gets acquainted with Magento, Varien continues to build upon its vision and improve upon the pains of current open source eCommerce experiences. From last month's preview release of Magento DataFlow, which will simplify the process for data importing and exporting, to the architecture behind Interface Extensions, which will make design updates a breeze, Magento has been developed from the ground up to be your next eCommerce platform.

Within the next 100 days:

  • A Magento release candidate and production 1.0 version will launch
  • New community features will be introduced
  • An extensive partner network will be announced
  • Magento Connect (A marketplace for the exchange of Magento products, extensions and services) will be getting off the ground

We are incredibly excited about the upcoming releases of Magento and expect 2008 to be a great year for eCommerce. Varien is committed to Magento for the long term, both in the US and abroad, and we will be going on a European and US tour next year to meet with Magento store owners, developers, designers and partners.

The community feedback has been great, and community support will play a large role in helping us produce the best open source eCommerce product on the market, so keep spreading the word about Magento to your friends, colleagues, partners, clients and anyone else interested in Open Source eCommerce Evolved.


]]> Magento News and Announcements 2007-12-06T01:40:00-08:00 Comment by hoz {url_as_title} looking forward to meet you in Latvia, Riga.

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by mgm_03 {url_as_title} I highly recommend making Portland, Oregon one of your stops. As silicon valley living and labor costs become prohibitive, more talented individuals and agencies are migrating to the northwest. There are many local, relevant online resources for advertising your event as well.  Of course, Seattle is an obvious tour stop, however, it is a 3hr drive from Portland.

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by lopsta.com {url_as_title} great achievement, nice to see that i was a small part of it (like everybody else)

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by caledosphere {url_as_title} Great great great job
franck from new caledonia

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by tzCart {url_as_title} @dietz - thanks for the tip, I don’t administer the iis, keeping my hope there’s a solution.
I think it would require hiring a php administrator really, or outsourcing the hosting, that’s the ticket as far as I’m concerned.

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by Phliplip {url_as_title} I second Jorge, but you have to come to Denmark and visit wonderful Bornholm http://www.bornholm.info/?langId=2 , and if you are into diving we can arrange this as well smile My family runs the dive-center.

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by jorge964 {url_as_title} If when you visit Europe you want to come to sunny Spain (Madrid) I’ll be happy to help you. Hopefully my shop will be running in Magento by then!

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by dietz {url_as_title} @tzCart - We’ve been testing Magento with several servers suporting FastCGI (like IIS -> http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=1000051 or lighttpd). As far as we can say: Looks good.

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by NickL {url_as_title} Go Go Magento!

Roy, you have no idea how much you guys keep me inspired.

I actually put down my halo 3 handset, and picked up my ruby and php books to dig in again.

Your right.. it couldn’t have come at a better time. Look forward to getting involved more after this psychotic xmas season.

Happy Holidays to the whole Magento Team!

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by Croif {url_as_title} Keep up the great work!

Thanks a lot! grin

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by illy` {url_as_title} well done guys

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by RoyRubin {url_as_title} @tzCart - We feel pretty good about our base supporting Apache at this time.

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by tzCart {url_as_title} Is Magento always going to require Apache, or what would it take to not run in the Apache environment, such as iis without Apache?

It would be interesting to poll the users to see what server platform and the like they plan to develop and run the application, but then maybe Varien’s got a pretty good idea already who their open source client base is?

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by wilhelmdma {url_as_title} Nice! Would be really nice if you guys come to South America as well.
Open source always play a important role in developing countries and their economies more than they do in developed ones.

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by RoyRubin {url_as_title} Hopefully we can make it to Australia in 2008 as well smile

]]> 2013-05-20 T;16:48:00-08:00 Comment by medic {url_as_title} Cool. Will you come to Australia?

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