Re: [SLUG] Open Source E-Commerce Solutions

From: Martin Messer (martin_messer@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2001 - 07:11:37 EDT


There's always Interchange, the former Akopia's web store:

http://interchange.redhat.com/

I've seen this in action and it's quite nice.

> I've got a customer that I've set up with my ISP (XO), and we're also
> setting up e-commerce for her. On the low end, XO uses something
> called
> Miva, which is, nearest I can figure, like a proprietary sort of PHP.
> Docs suck, interface sucks, etc. (Can you tell I don't like it? You
> know, this is the first time in years I've had to deal with a company
> that puts out proprietary software that I have to use and get support
> for. I'd forgotten how it felt. Irks me.)
>
> Anyway, XO is running on Sun boxes with Apache as their web server,
> and
> you have the ability to run your own CGIs, Perl, Python and PHP from
> your domain. So I'm looking for an alternative to this Miva crap.
>
> I don't want to pick an e-commerce package off freshmeat and later
> find out it sucks. Anyone have any experience with open source
> e-commerce packages, like which ones work best, etc.?
>
> Paul
>

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