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So Adobe wants to take on Shopify. Interesting. I wonder if that can work? What is Shopify's long term competitive advantage here? BTW how much was it acquir
by bhouston 8y ago
So Adobe wants to take on Shopify. Interesting. I wonder if that can work? What is Shopify's long term competitive advantage here?
BTW how much was it acquired for?
- blahyawnblah 8y ago1.6 Billion
- pauljaworski 8y agoTheir software isn't terrible.
- drivingmenuts 8y agoIt's not Magento. Shopify is a more modern implementation - easier to configure and done so in a manner that is not new-user unfriendly. Which is not to say it's friendly, just not totally unfriendly. Note: I got turned down by Magento over a year ago. Not sure if I'm still biased or not.
- hitekker 8y agoI’d say your willingness to disclaim a potential bias lends credence to your claim.
- chiefalchemist 8y agoI didn't assume that. My hunch is Adobe wants to create something similar to Shopify but for larger mid-sized and true enterprise entities. Sure many use Shopify but not necessarily because they want to.
- bhouston 8y agoShopify is trying to move up market as there are more profits available from larger customers.
- levashovbiz 8y ago3000 of their Shopify Plus merchants brings almost as much revenue as 600,000 of other merchants (on other Shopify plans).
- sodosopa 8y agoAdobe just wants to buy them before IBM does. At least OpenText didn't purchase them. Shudders...
- sumoboy 8y ago1.6 billion. They bought demandware nearly 2 years ago for just slightly higher which has ecommerce. They just recently ended Business catalyst which was a POS. I guess they magento is the key to taking on big and small ecom sites in the future with this POS.
- bhouston 8y agoDemandware was bought by Salesforce.
- desireco42 8y agoI can't figure out what you mean by POS, is it Point of Sale, or more common attribute meant to describe Magento performance? :)
- sumoboy 8y agoA piece of sh%# My bad on demandware.. ^^