One of our other developers looked at Satchmo before he moved on. That was probably a year ago; it seemed like it wasn't mature enough for what we were looking

One of our other developers looked at Satchmo before he moved on. That was probably a year ago; it seemed like it wasn't mature enough for what we were looking for. The problem is, I'd love to use python/django or ruby/rails, but it's a hard pitch to the boss if the platform we're looking at doesn't start off with many features. He really wants to avoid reinventing the wheel as much as possible. I've heard what you're saying about Magento around the web quite a bit; that the way it's laid out makes it very hard to work on, and that it can be very slow. I think if a django/rails project started off pretty close to what we were looking for, we could implement the missing features ourselves in less time than it would take to work in PHP, simply because of developer productivity increases in those languages/frameworks. Anyway, I'll take another look at Satchmo and see where it's at. I'd really love to avoid getting into another huge PHP mess again.