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Magento is certainly making waves. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, Magento is looking likely to become the successor to osCommerce as the most popular open source ecommerce platform.

There are many things which make Magento a much better option than osCommerce. However for some people the tried and tested, ‘better the devil you know’, huge knowledge, customisation and support base of osCommerce  makes it the platform they would still prefer to put their development investment into.

These justifications are valid to a point, however I now believe that the time is right to move into Magento and whilst I am not certain that it is worth worrying about upgrading if you already have a perfectly functional osCommerce site, I would recommend anyone looking to set up a new ecommerce site takes a close look at Magento.

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admin
June 8th, 2009

Since making this post, I have now decided that even well established sites based on older platforms should consider migrating to Magento. I grow more impressed with Magento every day I work on it (which is most days these days)
 

Duncan Wright
July 27th, 2009

The issue I have with Magento is pricing. To get the features needed top run a serious e-commerce website I believe you need the enterprise edition ($9k/year!!)

When you compare this to something like CRE loaded at $800 one off fee. I would suggest that Megento is targeting a completly different market.

It may be good, but it is expensive
 

admin
July 28th, 2009

I think you have been sucked in by the hype there Duncan.

Of course Varien (the company behind Magento) want you to think that you need to spend all that cash. The reality is that you really don’t. The standard free version of Magento is the most secure and powerful Ecommerce system I have ever worked on.
 

Jason
July 30th, 2009

I agree with the last comment, you simply don’t need the features of the paid version for most stores. I’ve just begun a store with Magento, and although totally different to my current site, hence a bit of head-banging and chin-stroking, I can see the potential it offers. For a lot of people it will be too complicated but for web designers it will prove to be a great piece of kit.
 

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