Magento

Los Angeles, Sep 3, 2008 – Varien, the Magento Company, announced last week that its eCommerce Platform Magento was recognized by two of the industry's top awards shows, winning awards for Magento's innovative use of open source technology to deliver unprecedented flexibility to eCommerce merchants.

Sourceforge.net, the world's largest repository of open source projects, host to more than 180,000 projects and more than 1.9 million registered users, named Magento, The Best New Open Source Project for 2008. The Magento eCommerce platform, released for production environment in Q1 of 2008, was nominated for a total of four Awards (including Most Likely to Be the Next $1B Acquisition), taking home The Best New Open Source Project Award - an award recognizing the newly created project with the most potential for success.

The winners, which included some of the biggest players in the open source world such as OpenOffice.org and Linux, were announced at the open source staple event of the year, OSCON 08.

That same week, Magento was also recognized by the editors and staff of InfoWorld with a BOSSIE Award naming Magento the Best of Open Source Enterprise Applications (E-Commerce). The BOSSIE Awards celebrate the best products that open source has to offer for businesses, their IT staffs, and their employees’.

"This is a great honor for Varien and the Magento eCommerce platform" said an enthused Roy Rubin, president and CEO of Varien, "and we are especially proud of our wonderful community that has helped Magento get recognized for these awards. Thank you so much for your efforts and support."

The Magento Community continues to thrive reaching 32,000+ members, 425,000+ downloads, 165+ extensions and support for 60+ locales in less than a year.

"The industry's acceptance of Magento and the positive feedback we're getting is an indication that Magento is positioned for even greater accomplishments." Added Roy Rubin, "The nominations and awards we've won are a testament that Magento is a standout product in the eCommerce platform market."

About Varien
The company behind Magento, Varien is an eCommerce platform provider founded in 2001. Varien offers world-class support plans and professional services spanning the life cycle of a Magento implementation, including consulting, design, development, installation, integration, training and more. Its groundbreaking Magento platform is the fastest growing eCommerce platform on the market with over 400,000+ downloads to date. Magento is a feature-rich, professional open-source eCommerce solution that offers merchants complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store. Magento’s intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing, search engine optimization and catalog-management tools to give merchants the power to create sites that are tailored to their unique business needs. Designed to be completely scalable and backed by an extensive support network, Magento offers companies the ultimate eCommerce solution.

Contact:
Chris Marshall,
Varien, Inc.
310.954.8012 x235
chris@varien.com
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