Magento eCommerce PHP Platform, the future of eCommerce
This is the start of an ambitious project that will change the way you do business online. Below are some of the reasons we think you’ll love Magento.
Powered by Zend Framework
The Magento open-source e-commerce engine uses PHP 5 and the Zend Framework, because of the large open-source ecosystem that supports and enhances their investment in Zend Framework.
No Constraints
As a professional open-source eCommerce solution, Magento allows the flexibility to create an online store that’s exactly what your business needs without extra clutter or constricting design limits. Never feel trapped in your eCommerce solution again.
Completely Scalable
Whether your store grows overnight or over a year, don’t spend valuable time worrying about your solution not growing with you. With Magento, your site is completely scalable.
Professional and Community Support
Unlike many other open-source eCommerce solutions available, Magento offers professional, reliable support, as well as the help of its passionate community.
Smooth Integration
Integrating third-party solutions should never be a hassle. Magento’s easy integration will help save you time and resources as you create a customized store around your business needs.
Cutting Edge Features
Don’t pay extra for features like product tagging, multi-address shipping or product comparison systems. Instead, get these and more right out of the box with Magento.
Get ready to experience open-source eCommerce evolved!
magento is slow and full of bloated code. don’t waste your time or money getting paid support for it or expensive hosting. You will regret it.
Oscommerce still kicks its butt! Osc is not perfect, but Magento’s attempt at ecommerce open source is a complete failure!
Oscommerce has been in existence for 8 years and has millions of users who aren’t leaving and for good reason. Everybody else is in 2nd place – still!
dave
June 22, 2008 at 6:44 am
@Dave: I strongly disagree. We´ve tested Magento for more than a half year and in the meantime we´re developing two onlne-shops based on Magento. We´ve no regrets about our decision, not at all. Magento is well designed and very flexible. And with optimized server-configurations Magento has a really good performance. In my opinion for professional e-commerce-solutions there is no alternative to Magento.
Magento
July 5, 2008 at 3:04 pm
@Dave
The Web is getting more sophisticated and Web applications are getting more complex. So if you are planning to install an eCommerce application in a $7pm shared hosting, then you started with the wrong foot. Magento’s architecture is very well designed, but if you don’t have the infrastructure to support it, then you’ll never be able to take full advantage of it. My advice, get yourself a dedicated server, take full control over it and configure it for best performance.
Good luck
phpimpact
July 5, 2008 at 5:57 pm
In my opinion, Magento is for serious OO/Linux developers and OSC is for PHP hackers. Which are you? That will make the choice very simple. Be honest!
The OSC architecture seems to be based on Italian dining experiences, while Magento is based on proven enterprise architecture patterns. I didn’t see a lot of bloat in the code at all. Not when you consider what’s included and what’s possible.
It is NOT easy to get multi-store, multi-currency, multi-language, multi-price, multi-catalog websites up and running in Magento… but it is possible and it works smoothly. Try that with OSC… you won’t get far.
Larry JH Zoumas
July 17, 2008 at 1:45 pm
We recommend Magento only for customers that really need the advantages this new shop system can offer (Multi-Shop, Multi-Language support, configurable products). If customers only need a simple shop system to get their eBusiness started OSC will still be a good choice.
IMHO you also can divide it into an enterprise and an entry market level.
Phoenix
July 25, 2008 at 4:06 pm
it’s got huge potential and the zend framework is superb. But it’s just tooooooo slow….. even on a dedicated server. The backend is……guess what? tooooo slow………too. unless somebody can show me a site that’s running quick on a dedicated server….???
kelvin
August 20, 2008 at 11:09 am
You need a server with 4.2ghz quad core cpu and 16gb of ram to make magento’s UI more responsive.
Eddy
October 14, 2008 at 7:07 am
@Dave
I disagree as well.
I’ve suffered so much at the hands of osCommerce. I could go into great detail, but all I have to say is:
Product Attributes
That module is especially…, embarrassingly bad. Even if you could get past the interface, if you have more than 100 attributes it’s completely unmanageable.
I had hope for osCommerce, especially when I thought version 3 with a full rewrite was going to be released. Now that it is clear that all development has ceased except in the contributions area, I just want to be free of it.
JB
October 20, 2008 at 8:06 pm
We believe strongly that Magento is by far the best Open Source ecommerce platform on the market.
Yes it did have some issues with load times and a few bugs here and there, but these have all been resolved.
What is clear is the rapid rate of development and the focus not only on the technical but also marketing. With both Google analytics and soon to be released optimizer integrated as standard, this platform is sure to me around for a long time!
Dan
Dan
November 19, 2008 at 11:56 pm
does 2x 2.0ghz Quad cores with 16gb Ram, 15k rpm raid 10 work well for magento? 2-3s page loads?
Shochu nut
January 9, 2009 at 8:07 am
I have also been looking at magento shop as an e-commerce setup.
I found their own demo slow and I also found a lot of the sites in the showcase very slow as well.
some of these being large corporate companies who much be on high spec dedicated servers.
Andy
February 3, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I just checked out their demo store and it was pretty responsive. Not the slow page loading I was expecting after reading through these comments.
FWIW:
I haven’t looked at the code yet, but just because they use the Zend Framework, still does not mean they implement MVC correctly or efficiently. Spaghetti code and oodles of DB hits are still taxing whether or not you use the MVC pattern.
IMHO, why Magento did not developed their own MVC framework for their application is questionable as well. For such a large application, one would think they would want absolute control over every line of code. The MVC pattern really is not difficult to implement. I am not saying the Zend Framework is bad, but too often people rely on frameworks without really understanding what is going on at the lower levels.
That being said, aside from writing quality code, there are other means to implement faster web sites through caching and compression techniques, CDNs, minimizing HTTP requests, minimal JS, getting off shared hosts, etc.
Any ‘mass-market’ eCommerce application which tries to appeal to every admin, developer and user out there will come with tons of extras that you will never need. Magento still seems by far the more quality eCommerce application when compared to the other atrocious open-source applications floating around currently.
Steve-o
February 26, 2009 at 2:26 pm