For what it's worth, in production Demandware is much better than Websphere Commerce Server. WCS could very well be cleaner in some universe, but the heavily-cu

For what it's worth, in production Demandware is much better than Websphere Commerce Server. WCS could very well be cleaner in some universe, but the heavily-customized (thanks IBM) versions that run in actual enterprise retailers are hellish. I worked with a team which put together a complete ecommerce site using mostly their standard http APIs in a couple of months, and unlike the WCS deployment I dealt with, Demandware was usually working. We did run into plenty of bugs, but the account manager got them resolved in short order. I would agree that, assuming no other context, Demandware is awful. In the context of its competitors, it feels like a breath of fresh air.