A couple years back, let’s say 4-5 years, there used to be just osCommerce, no osCMax and no Creloaded. Contribution installation was a popular task and most web development companies used to build eCommerce stores using osCommerce 2.2 as a base while adding contributions one by one. Some development companies still operate the same way today and popular contributions added to the osc 2.2 core install are i.e. UPS, USPS and FEDEX real time rates, Authorize.net cc processing, Discount Coupons, Purchase without Account, Additional Info Pages, Affiliate system …just to name a few.
Building stores piece by piece using osCommerce 2.2 while adding contributions became a repetitive and expensive task and soon there was a need for loaded versions of osCommerce which already had several additional contributions, such as the ones mentioned above, pre-installed. This led to the 1st versions of osCMax and CRELoaded. The story about CRE and inessential FDMS Clutter - continue reading
Magento says:
“Multi Store Management has been a hot topic in the eCommerce market and we are proud to feature such functionality as part of Magento’s core product.”
Here is the link to their 45 minute web seminar about Magento Multi Store Management.
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I didn’t really have the chance or the patience to go through the 45 minute documentation. Maybe my personal attention span just happens to be real low at the moment. I am unable to compare Magnum Multi Store to Magento Multi Store at this point, other than the fact that our product is priced at $1200, while Magento’s stuff is free. Our support fees are way lower though.
Overall, I find this all to be rather amusing. This is all soo Internet. We come out with something, 5 mins later somebody else jumps on it. Perfect examples are Magnum Multi Store, now Magento copies the Multi Store part and Magnum MVS 8.4 which CRE tried to copy.
But CRE did such a lousy job of integrating MVS into their CRE 6.3 B2B.
It’s a shame that they are Multi Store Wars - Magento moving into our territory - continue reading
“osCMax 2.0 RC4 has been released and is available for download from the osCMax project page: http://www.oscmax.com/project/osCMax
For a complete rundown of all the changes in this release, see the post here”
osCMax says:
“Almost every aspect of osCMax has been updated in this release. All mods have been improved and updated, and the core code has been updated to match osCommerce 2.2RC2a. The changes are extensive, so I do not recommend simply overwriting your existing RC3x store with the new code. I recommend doing a new separate installation and migrating to it.
RC4 will be in release for two weeks. If no major issues are found in that time, it will be certified as the final release of v2.0 and we will then osCMax releases v2.0 RC4 - it’s like a FREE CRE 6.2 B2B! - continue reading
