Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems

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OSCommerce in action

Submitted by John Locke on Fri, 06/03/2005 - 02:43

Newsforge is running a story about the realities of using OS Commerce, the open source shopping cart/e-commerce package. It describes the pluses and minuses fairly well: NewsForge | OSCommerce in action

Make sure you read the comments at the bottom of the page. At Freelock Computing, we've done half a dozen test deployments for various customers, and haven't put any into production quite yet. We've found that if all you need is a basic shopping cart, it's great. If you need something customized, it's generally easier to start from scratch.

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