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EBay Inc. Agrees to Acquire Magento
- cal5k 15y agoWow, that was fast. Does anybody know how big the deal was?
- nbauman 15y agoNot sure how big, but I would actually say it hasn't been fast. Magento has been in existence in some form for almost 10 years, starting as a product they used with consulting clients. This has been a loooong road for the Varien team.
- hackernewz 15y agoSo, they've been using Zend Framework for 10 years?
- olalonde 15y agoNo, Zend Framework dates from ~2006.
- mgkimsal 15y agoI think that was the point of the 'ZF' comment. Whatever varien had as an ecommerce package before their ZF uptake was likely different enough from what Magento was that it's not terribly accurate or useful to say "magento's been around for 10 years". Magento in its current form has been around for ~4 years. Wikipedia even indicates that Varien was using osCommerce before Magento was developed, so they likely didn't have a full commerce stack of their own for the last 10 years.
- nbauman 15y agoAgreed - would have been more accurate to say Varien rather than Magento.
- cal5k 15y agoThis is a fair point. Speaks to the idea that most overnight successes are 10 years in the making :-)
- cookiecaper 15y agoMagento is horrible. Has anyone here ever used it? It is bad. Makes sense that eBay would acquire it, I guess. My hopes are not high for the platform.
- invisible 15y agoIt's the best free eCommerce solution. Not that that is saying a lot.
- pbreit 15y agoI used to think that but Spree Commerce is pretty nice. And Rails, too.
- RobertLowe 15y agoThis. It's horrible.
- Apocryphon 15y agoI can't stop reading it as "Magneto".
- timdorr 15y agoIt's incredibly over-engineered. Just look at the templating system and see how far down you have to go in a directory tree just to make a simple edit on the page. The code itself is too fragmented to follow. A lot of the mental overhead from working on it comes from just having to remember where functions are in the code base.
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- jasonlotito 15y agoMagento's Blog Post: http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog They've also prepared a PDF containing an FAQ covering details of the acquisition. Congrats to the Magento team! I remember them launching Magento a few years ago on the then, still young, Zend Framework. Glad to see things turn out so well for them.
- theseanstewart 15y agoI have several clients using Magento and it's definitely the best e-commerce solution available right now. In the beginning there were a lot of performance issues, but most of those problems have been addressed now. I'm wondering what's going to happen with the free version of Magento. They don't mention anything about it.
- hackernewz 15y agoThe performance issues have just been masked with caching. The template layer makes hundreds of useless classes each request. Could speed it up 40% or so with flyweight pattern on the template classes. Could reduce memory usage each request by not using XML config files and not included configs for modules that are turned off.
- klbarry 15y agoWhat CMS would you recommend in it's stead? Free would of course be best.
- vladd 15y agoMagento CrunchBase page: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/magento http://www.crunchbase.com/company/magento
- rohi81 15y agoI think this is a really strategic move for e-bay. They are now catering to the whole eco-system by providing a e-commerce platform (magento), payment integration (via paypal) and complete fulfillment back end via GSI commerce. If executed well they have a good chance at attracting a lot of customers. The biggest advantage is they have huge auction based commerce platform ebay itself to provide cross channel capabilities.
- scorxn 15y agoNow would be a great time to build a new FOSS e-commerce platform that runs on commodity hosting.
- mtw 15y agohttp://spreecommerce.com http://spreecommerce.com
- code_duck 15y agoInteresting. Magento is the WordPress of commerce software: feature rich and popular, but not particularly well written, and tied to PHP/MySQL. Like WP, it is based upon a questionable custom framework. I'd love to see a well done, customizable, open source ecommerce system for a language that I'd actually want to use. For best hope of popularity, Django or Rails makes sense. Last time I checked around for Django ecommerce projects, I didn't see anything grand. I'm going to be working on stuff like this over the summer; anyone have a suggestion for a Django or Rails project to improve or adopt?
- mnazim 15y agoDon't know much about rails but for Django there - Satchmo(http://satchmoproject.com/ http://satchmoproject.com/) - Lightening Fast Shop (http://www.getlfs.com/ http://www.getlfs.com/) More info - http://djangopackages.com/grids/g/ecommerce/ http://djangopackages.com/grids/g/ecommerce/ - http://readncode.com/blog/the-state-of-ecommerce-in-django/ http://readncode.com/blog/the-state-of-ecommerce-in-django/ I used Satchmo sometime back and it's a very good but low level solution. You can do a lot with it. I did not use LFS but it seems something which can help you setup a cart very quickly, like pinax does for social sites. EDIT: Fully agree about Magento/WP. From a cursory look into Magento internals seemed of questionable design and unnecessarily complicated.
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- izak30 15y agoIf you're familiar with Django, I'd check out django-shop or satchless. They're much more developer geared, and a little less "finished product".
- theatrus2 15y agoMagento is also a huge resource hog. Wordpress at least is somewhat tame in that department.
- ptbello 15y agoAt least as a dev you can get WP to do what you want pretty easily, regardless of how bad the code is. In comparison Magento is far more convoluted.
- theklub 15y agoShould of picked up shopify instead.
- mattblalock 15y agoI'm glad they didn't, it's nearing finished product status (from my perspective) and I haven't seen a lot of innovation from them since inception... I'd like to love them more, but I just cant. [note: I've developed multiple Shopify themes and Magento, admined a Magento store for 3 years, and developed some pretty custom things for both platforms. i am in both communities, or I like to think so...]
- mattwdelong 15y agoJust out of curiosity - does anyone plan on migrating from Magento to another platform as a result of this acquisition?
- mattblalock 15y agoI've been considering a migration to something else for over a year, but have yet to find any product meeting our needs other than the latest version of Magento... that being said, I have yet to be able to upgrade to that version... something is severely wrong with our DB and we're pretty much stuck in an old version!
- mildweed 15y agoThis finally makes sense why Paypal has had their documentation on x.com for so long. x.com == x.commerce And here, I thought they'd been wasting a perfectly good domain name for a long time...
- pbreit 15y agoI'm surprised they don't do something nifty with the x.com domain. I had some ideas when I was still there. Housing developer content seems pretty lame.
- dreamdu5t 15y agoI'd be willing to bet eBay is preparing to use Magento to roll their own turn-key hosted storefront service.
- pbreit 15y agoThey've had prostores.com for quite some time and while it does have a good number of merchants using it, it's far from best-in-class. I would expect much of that to migrate over to Magento (and Magento Go) which is slightly better and more modern. But I don't think my expectations are that high.
- gersh 15y agoMagento can't even do a shopping cart properly. The default is a really messy shopping cart, and it is a pain to customize it. You gotta hack everything just to make a one page checkout.